I was in a boring but mandatory safety meeting this morning. I brought something to read, but the dry and lack of focus talks made me impatient. So, I drew. The first model was
When I finished it I thought the meeting was over, but another speaker came to the podium — jeez 
. Got to find another to draw, so here was it:
The talk wasn’t half way through when I finished this one. WTH. I left the room. Got to find something to eat.
What comes after POP ART and OP ART?
New York Times presents some collection of Al Jaffee’s fold-ins for Mad Magazine, from 1960s to the present, in for categories: Presidents, War and the Military, Pop Culture, and Sport. Quite interesting.
Here you can see some selected Chinese paintings, currently exhibited in Metropolitan Museum (from “Anatomy of a Masterpiece” — The New York Times
And here are some Japanese paintings, displayed in Asia Society (“Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan” — The New York Times
Another set of Japanese paintings exhibited in Brooklyn Museum (“Masters of the Japanese Print” — The New York Times)
Said Michelangelo to a langud young studio assistant, Antonio Mini, in 1524. Not just urging Mini to draw, Michelangelo also gave Mini many drawings. Morgan Library & Muserum currently exhibits 79 16th-century Florentine works from the Mini cache, “Michelangelo, Vasari and Their Contemporaries: Drawing From the Uffizi”.
For Michelangelo drawing was the most practical and personal medium; it was a laboratory, a diary, an end in itself. If you could do a perfect drawing, he came to think, why bother to turn it into a painting or sculpture? Perfection in any form was the goal. One of the most famously perfect drawings he made, “Bust of a Woman, Head of an Old Man and Bust of a Child,” is in this show. (from Artistic Muscle, Flexed for Medicis, New York Times)
Haven’t done my practice for a while. 
What is grunge style in web design?
… dirty look with irregular, nasty, sometimes even ugly and crooked visual elements. (from Smashing Magazine)
It doesn’t mean that grunge stands for dirty. Smashing magazine gives some examples of what grunge style looks like in web design. This is grunge style:
Smashing magazine also collects several tools (grunge texture, brushes etc). And with these two tutorials (Grunge Photoshop Tutorials & Grungy Cover Design Tutorial), you can make your own grunge. 
Though I don’t get day off on Christmas day, I wish my friends a Merry Christmas. Enjoy your holidays! (yup, relax first and resolve later )
(Based on WALL•E poster)
A little bit pale. Maybe I should use Magic Marker for outline.
And here is flash file I made before. 
(Peace)
Listen to NPR’s introduction of the paintings by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) and check out the slideshow, “The Art of J. M. W. Turner“.
He is one of my favorite painters.
In New York Times’s science section, an article, “Simulations of Ailing Artists’ Eyes Yield New Insights on Style“, talks about how physical limitations changed how these suffering painters crafted their works.
as he (Monet) aged, his painting noticeably lost subtlety. Brush strokes became bolder, and colors strikingly blue, orange or brown. His images lost detail and flowed into one another. His days as an avant-garde rebel had long passed, but some critics would later wonder whether the Impressionist was suddenly trying to become an abstract expressionist.
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Now, thanks to modern digital techniques, scientists and critics can have a better idea how cataracts changed what Monet saw. This year, an ophthalmologist at Stanford, Michael F. Marmor, described in The Archives of Ophthalmology creating computer simulations of Monet’s world as his lenses yellowed, blurring vision and turning patterns of color and light into muddy, unfocused, yellow-green inkblots.
See the slideshow.
(From NYT: Cataracts forced Mary Cassatt to stop working years before her death in 1926. She painted “Young Mother Sewing” in 1900.)
That’s how I am feeling at this moment.
Scream (Skrik, 1893) by Edvard Munch
It’s been two months since my last sketch. Got a free book that uses animals to categorize people. Don’t believe much about what it said about my personality and what it predicted my life this year.
Anyway, here are three of us. Getting to know you two is the best thing for me this year.
