Sunday, November 30, 2014

Thanksgiving Left-Overs

A left-over Hieronymous Bosch background, plus National Geographics equals...
Penguin Hunt

Left over from an earlier series...
Naked Men in Isolated Places 4

Left-over nude ladies, an old much-used sky and an architectural model...
Staircase

Friday, November 28, 2014

New Collaborations

 Ode to Narrow-Mindedness
Collaboration No. 28 between Lynn Skordal & Sabine Remy

Salon
Collaboration No. 29 between  Sabine Remy & Lynn Skordal

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Pulp Fiction

Pulp Dreams (Gastropod)

Pulp Dreams (Office Help)

Pulp Dreams (Little Sister)

 Pulp Dreams (Rogue Gondola Man)

Pulp Dreams (Peril)


Pulp Dreams (Space Warriors)





Sunday, November 16, 2014

Sepia [see-pee-uh]

Sepia is a warm, reddish-brown or olive-brown color, named after and originally derived from the ink of the cuttlefish.  The cuttlefish, is a small cephalopod with an elongated body and tentacles around its mouth, capable of flashing bright, rapidly changing colors during mating and combat, and although reportedly color-blind, able to almost instantly change its skin color to match its surroundings (even in total darkness) through some mechanism that remains a mystery to scientists. 

Cuttlefish ink was used as a common writing ink during Greco-Roman times, and as an artist's drawing material until the 19th century.  Leonardo da Vinci, for example, used it to sketch, write, draw and make color washes Sepia is also the color of many old photographs, due to the way in which they were processed. And, on a slightly more unfortunate note, Wikipedia declares that during the 1940-50s era, R&B music was sometimes referred to as "race music" or "sepia music."

Sepia suggests warmth, nostalgia and vulnerability -- a quality most often supplied today by PhotoShop, not the cuttlefish. 

Here's some of my recent sepia music...

 Clarice, raised by crows, was ashamed of her human face.

Georgia's Manicure


Hollywood Anguish


Japan No. 25


Friday, November 14, 2014

Diddling Magritte

Magritte at Dali's Window

The Hitherto Invisible

Mr. Magritte's Neighborhood