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Illuminated by the Light of the World

January 2, 2024 by John Black

A portrait painting of my sister, Ann Black Nash

My sister was a very patient model. Here is another portrait painting I did when we were both teenagers. She is pensively sitting on the couch, looking out the window, cautiously wondering what is next.

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Filed Under: Art, Biography, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, Painting, portrait

Desperation #2.2

April 12, 2023 by John Black

This is a duplicate of Desperation 2, with two hidden layers added back in.

This is a revision of Desperation #2. Still grappling with Klee’s Line Walk lessons. Thus, lots of lines walking.

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Filed Under: Art, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, daily drawing, drawing

Dynamic Color Fields 02

March 26, 2023 by John Black

I created this using a system described in this paper and demo, Text2Video-Zero on Hugging face about generating video from text. I used this prompt: “Rothko like painting with three fuzzy edged color field rectangles transitioning in hue from warmer to cooler and darker values.”

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Dynamic Color Fields 01

March 20, 2023 by John Black

This will count as my daily artwork. It took hours to get this right. And yes, I realize that very few will enjoy or care about it. But sometimes, I have read, that is what it is about when you take the pretentious title of “artist.” You get this idea, something you want to make – because you can feel how it just might matter, it might be awesome! So, like Don Quixote, you put on your makeshift artist’s armor, collect every bit of courage you can scrape together, and sally out to make that thing, make that art that will protect the innocent, avenge injustice, right wrongs, give food to the hungry, water to the thirsty, and be the scourge of giants!

Dynamic Color Fields 01, Coded with Processing

Above all, aging artists, you must not heed those voices you hear, as Don Quixote’s niece cried out:

. . .you have been struck by such great blindness and such obvious foolishness that you try to make us believe that you are valiant when you are old, and strong when you are ailing, that you right wrongs when you are stooped by age, and most of all, that you are a knight when you are not, because though gentlefolk may be knights, poor folk never are!

DON QUIXOTE (P. 493)

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Studies for the bird with a twisted neck – Daily Drawing

March 11, 2023 by John Black

The bird with the twisted neck can see around you. It can see where you were and where you are going.

Studies of a bird with a twisted neck, Charcoal on Newsprint

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