.....Sorry that it took me awhile to dig out the book that I told you about. Its "The Simple Secret to Better Painting" by Greg Albert. It says, "How to immediately improve your Art with this One Rule of Composition." Cost is $25. I'd try to see if they had it at the library. ......

.....I came to a conclusion the other day. Learning to draw- for me- up untill recently; has been a process of mentally decomposing everything I see into a series of lines. They say that its far more in the eye than the hand. And indeed, when I'm "hot"; and I'm somewhere I can't draw; I fe...

.....Artist have an urge to express themselves visually.(Let's limit our discussion to the visual Arts; for simplicity sake; though much of this could apply to anything.)It is hard to explain exactly why. We know, to be sure; but it isn't always possible to verbalize- and when you DO manage to put t...

.....Here's a poem that I wrote several years ago. I really only feel like writing poetry when I'm really down. Can't sing the blues in an air-conditioned room... ..... REGRET . . . .....There is a Bitter Taproot .....Round Which .....This Sad World Spins... .....Partly made from Past Regrets; ........

.....Do you do any Welding Andy? I used to Weld several hours daily; when I was going for my Welding degree. I only have a little stick Welder at home; and I miss burning rods. .....I didn't quite get my degree in Welding; I already had the one in Industrial Maintenance; and I wanted to get a job. O...

.....That was a popular form of computer Art back in the seventies. They called it "Gould"- at least at Purdue. Not sure the spelling, might have been "Goold". May have been some sort of anagram.

.....RVM45

.....There's a great book on composition. Its titled something like: "The Secret to Great Paintings." Anyway, the author goes to great lengths to illustrate the idea that you should never have two intervals that are the same. That leads to static; uninteresting paintings. You've violated t...

.....If you're still wanting to experiment; they used to sell a fairly high quality set of shooting glasses with several pair of interchangeable lenses- amber; photo-gray; vermillion; bluish; traditional green; etc. It would be interesting to try mixing lenses. .....Another thing, seems if your shad...

.....About winning the lottery: Five years ago, my father was dying with cancer. I was sitting with him during the night. I stopped at a conveinience store on my way home, to buy a soft-drink; gas; or something- don't even remember. The dude in front of me won $5000. .....I don't play the lottery- e...

.....Way back in the 70s, they had computer programs that could compose music. Its beyond me; but every real piece of music satisfies several mathematical conditions. Program those parameters into a machine; and it proceeds at random; simply throwing away the majority of the results for being outsid...