Midsummer Night's Dream #2

...a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings

---Lysander, Act II, Scene II

Between enough and too much, there is Herzenslust

Journey of cards #2

No, I didn't do it on purpose. But I like it.

Down the street from Walden Pond Books and its guardians.

The very majestic Grand Lake Theatre in the Background at the Saturday Farmer's Market.

Left with Oakland entrepreneur Henry Miyoshi of Korrupt Label

Archeological find.

I could not see it then because I did not want to see it

A pilgrim at left, the first word, "I" at right

"could not see it then" at left, "because" at right

A friend asked me recently if we can ever really know another person.

I think one answer is that it's as possible as really knowing ourselves.

Sometimes it's doable, and sometimes we have to readjust our perceptions.

Richard the Third #2

I have taken liberties, as the drowned Clarence is actually offstage.

I repent me that the Duke is slain.

– Second Murderer

So do not I. Go, coward as thou art.

Well, I'll go hide the body in some hole,

Til that the Duke give order for his burial.

And when I have my mead I will away,

For this will out and then I may not stay.

– First Murderer

– King Richard the Third, Act I, Scene IV

Which one repents?

Jessie Lilac's Birds

This lovely creature is one of several treatments of the Illustration Friday them "confined" on Jessie Lilac's blog.

Richard the Third #1

But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,

Nor made to court an amorous looking glass

...since I cannot prove a lover,

To entertain these fair well-spoken days,

I am determined to prove a villain,

And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

– King Richard the Third, Act I, Scene I

Do people really prance around delighted with their own evil? My own experience is that people who do the worst things are those most unquestioningly convinced of their own virtue. I do think this royal cloak would hide any hunchback (I have read that it may have been a war wound, not a birth defect, that caused Richard's ungainliness).

1 from King Henry the Fifth

...gentlemen in England, now a-bed,

Shall thinks themselves accursed they were not here;

And hold their manhoods cheap, whiles any speaks

That fought with me upon St. Crispin's Day.

---Henry The Fifth, King Henry the Fifth. Act 4, Scene 3

As far as I can tell this speech may be the origin of the trope in war films - and Battlestar Galactica - of drawing the line where the guys who don't have the stomach for it are free to leave and not take part. Peer group pressure dictates that nobody ever does.

1 from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania

- Oberon, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2, Scene 1

Journey of the Cards

Here are 9 cards I collaged on placed on, or on the way to, Piedmont Avenue. I made ten of them but gave one to Mina at the flower store for her to place wherever she wished.

Birdwoman

Isn't this lovely? This is the work of Kaetlyn Wilcox of the Birdwoman blog. She has other graceful animal-headed figures on her blog.

Kat Soto

This is one of the figures from the series of holiday windows for the Shreve Company in San Francisco. This Turandot and the Rigoletto characters are by EJ Taylor included in the Kat Soto collection for Jim Cardosa Design. Most of these figures are by Kat Soto. You can see the series, a percentage of the sales of which go to benefit Doctors without Borders, on her website, as well as other windows she has done for Shreve.

The 2010 Illustration Calendar

Here are all the months, based on posts in in Artspark Theatre, for your perusal. Click to enlarge.

Calendars

One Calendar $15.00 Two Calendars $30.00 Three Calendars $42.00

Bat Decoration

Here's a pattern for making a bat decoration. Right click above to copy the pattern. You will need some stiff black paper, thread and a hole punch. Fold an 11' wide piece of paper in half and place the pattern on the fold (you can use a little tape to hold it in place) and cut around it. The result should be similar to the first photo below.

If you have cut out the protruding ridges on the top of the wings where indicated, you have the indication of where the folds in the wings should be made - make the first fold up, in the opposite direction of the bisecting fold, then make the two folds on either side.

Punch holes for the eyes - I have used the hole punch for the wings, but a more subtle hole can be made with a needle. Pull the thread through and knot it fairly hight up for easy adjustment - invisible thread will add to the realism. Bevare!

Robot saving bird from fire

Robot saving bird from fire at JinxMonsters

Ewan

This wonderful bird is by Diahn Ott. You can see more sensitively rendered winged creatures and other work, and observations about her life on her blog.