The Reader's Digest Condensed Version:
Plein air painting, the female body, water.
Stone, sculpture, still life.
The Intracoastal Waterway.
Sailing, sunsets, sushi.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, figure drawing.
The Colonial Parkway, Cades Cove, Cove Mountain.
Carving, curves, copper, clay.
Colonial Williamsburg, The National Gallery of Art.
Industrial landscapes, timber frames, naked studio models.
Bronze, breasts, belly buttons, butts.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Chicago Art Institute.
Yosemite, The Grand Tetons, Lake Tahoe.
Pungo, plaster, playdough.
Eastern Shore, Escanaba, Back Bay.
The Little River, The Willcox House, Puget Sound, The Great Dismal Swamp.
more...
I'd like to meet:
Creative people. . .
Someone who captures my imagination. . .
If you'd like to add me as a friend, send me an email, tell me something interesting. . .
And now a word about the comments on my page. There aren't any. Feel free to comment my blogs but I intend for this page to remain a "Comment Free Zone".
Music:
I have groups of favorites, so here is who I listen to on my iPod:
Female Vocalists:
Alanis Morissette, Carly Simon, Dido, Edie Brickell, Enya, Fleetwood Mac (Stevie Nicks), Indigo Girls, Heart, Joan Baez, Loreena McKennitt (she's Canadian and her sound is a mix of Celtic and middle eastern, really evocative), Natalie Merchant, Sheryl Crow, Tracy Chapman. Norah Jones
Male vocalist and semi easy listening:
Al Stewart, Alan Parsons Project, Allman Brothers, Billy Joel, Bob Seger, Boz Scaggs, Bread, Bruce Cockburn, Bruce Hornsby, Dave Mason, Dire Straits (and Mark Knopfler solo), Don Henley, Don McLean, Doobie Brothers, Eagles, Elton John, Gerry Rafferty, Gordon Lightfoot, Harry Chapin, Marc Cohn, Robbie Robertson, Robert Plant, Warren Zevon
Instrumental:
Dave Grusin, Michael Hedges, Will Ackerman
Rock and Roll:
Bad Company, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Boston, CCR, Deep Purple, ELO, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Eric Clapton, Everlast, Focus, Foghat, Foreigner, Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush, Gary Wright, Golden Earing, Grand Funk, Guess Who, Guns N Roses, James Gang, Jethro Tull, Buffett, Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Little River Band, Lou Reed, Lynrd Skynrd, Matchbox Twenty, Nazareth, Neil Young, Nickelback, Pink Floyd, Queen, Rare Earth, REO Speedwagon, Rolling Stones, Rush, Santana, Steely Dan, Supertramp, Tesla, U2
When I listen to XM, I find that I'm listening more and more to progressive country. It's also called Americana. Some recent favorites are:
Stone Coyotes, Cowboy Junkies, John Hiatt, James McMurtry, Robert Earl Keen, Billy Joe Shaver, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Hayseed Dixie (some of their covers of heavy metal are hilarious), Hank III, Chris Knight, Lucinda Williams. There's more but I can't recall the names. I am really getting into music that has interesting lyrics and this last group really has my attention lately.So that's a start, certainly not exhaustive. I have lots of other stuff that I haven't put onto my iPod. Obscure 70's stuff mostly, alot of Frank Zappa, Tangerine Dream, Yes, stuff like that. Some classical.
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Television:
Television sucks except for HBO on Sunday nights but I do like scotch.
Favorite single malts:
Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Oban, Talisker, Cragganmore, Bowmore, Bunnahabhain.
Favorite Blends (yes, there are some tasty blends):
Johnnie Walker Blue, The Dimple Pinch.
Books:
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand,
The Awakening by Kate Chopin,
Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland,
Alla Prima: Everything I know About Painting by Richard Schmid.
Heroes:
These are artists I admire; most are painters, some are sculptors. Artists with an asterisk next to their name have work on display in our very own Chrysler Museum of Art (editorial comments in parentheses, feel free to disagree).
Google any of the following to find out more:
Frederick Edwin Church
Sanford Robinson Gifford
John Frederick Kensett
*Jasper Francis Cropsey* (forgive him his perspective problem, Chrysler's painting is beautiful)
Fitz Hugh Lane
*Thomas Cole* (the father of The Hudson River School)
*Albert Bierstadt* (Chrysler's painting is nice, but this is not his best work)
William Trost Richards
*William Merritt Chase* (incredible still life, who'd have thought a painting of dead fish would be beautiful)
Martin Johnson Heade
Frank Weston Benson
*Ernest Lawson* (beautiful landscape, one of his best and one of the finest landscapes in the Chrysler)
Thomas Moran
*John Singer Sargent*
Thomas Eakins
Nicolai Fechin
Rembrandt van Rijn
Leonardo DaVinci
*Eugene Boudin*
*Alfred Sisley* (Sisley is the most underrated painter of the Impressionists. Chrysler's painting is beautiful, but he really shines painting cloudy, overcast days)
*Claude Monet* (Chrysler's Monet is a real dog, even Monet himself hated it)
*Auguste Renoir* ("The Daughters of Durand-Ruel" is an absolute masterpiece of Impressionism and it lives here in Norfolk at the Chrysler)
*Paul Cezanne*
*Henri Fantin-Latour* (one of the finest portraits in the Chrysler)
Walter Murch (the painter, not the film guy)
Richard Schmid
Matt Smith
John Stobart
Christopher Blossom
Joseph McGurl
Don Demers
Clyde Aspevig
Howard Terpning
Harley Brown
Duane Bryers
James Reynolds
Walter Matia
*Auguste Rodin*
*William Morris* (beautiful glass sculptures)
