by Marty Coleman | Jan 14, 2013 | Philbrook Museum of Art, Photography |
Recently I went to Philbrook Museum of Art here in Tulsa to do a photo shoot for a friend, Kathi Morrison, and her family. When we were done I left the family and went traipsing around the museum on my own for a while. When I came down stairs I found Kathi’s daughter, Lauren, at a little kid’s drawing table drawing herself in a mirror. Her brother was there as well and asked me, “Do you know how to draw”? I said yes and sat across from his sister and started to draw her drawing herself as he watched. This is the drawing that resulted.
Lauren Morrison
Here is a photo I took of her earlier in the day during the family portrait session.
Lauren Morrison
Here is Lauren with the rest of her family in one of the group portraits.
Kathi Morrison and Family
If you haven’t had a chance to get to Philbrook you really should go. It’s the former home of Waite Phillips of Phillips 66 gasoline fame and is now a world class museum. It has the original mansion as well as a large modern addition where temporary exhibitions, lectures and educational activities take place. It even has a fantastic restaurant called ‘The Villa’ that serves lunch and a great Sunday brunch. And, as the photo below shows, it’s got an incredible outdoor space. What you see here is both the formal and informal Italian gardens. Behind and to the left and right are great open spaces with sculptures, walkways and a creek.
Philbrook at Sunset by Marty Coleman
You can find more information at Philbrook.org.
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by Marty Coleman | Jan 11, 2013 | Art, Robert Ingersoll |
Biting Critique
Have you ever been in a critique? I went to Cranbrook Academy of Art for graduate school back in the early 80s. I was in the printmaking department and once a week we would have critiques with the entire group (18 students). They were brutal and if I had been illustrating what it was really like in this drawing she would not just have her hand and foot gone but her head as well. How bad was it? I was denied admission for a second and final year because my work wasn’t good enough in my professor’s eyes. We had moved 2,000 miles across the country for me to go to school there and a year later I was out and we had to go back to California. I started over and eventually got my graduate degree, an MFA, from San Jose State University. But make no mistake, I was chewed up and spit out and it wasn’t fun.
Reaping
But, in truth, it was nature at it’s best. That means it was not a punishment for me and those who stayed for the second year didn’t get a reward. We all got consequences. I reaped the consequences of artistic and personal immaturities and arrogances on my part. I reaped the consequences of unhelpful habits on my part. I reaped the consequences of personality conflicts with a professor. I reaped the consequences of a system that I thought then, and I think now, had some serious flaws in it. But the totality of that experience had very little to do with rewards granted and punishments imposed in an arbitrary way. It had everything to do with cause and effect, action and reaction, truth and consequence.
What about you? Do you think you deserve to be punished or rewarded for something you have done? Or can you take the more neutral, less morally condemning view, that you are merely suffering the consequences?
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Drawing by Marty Coleman, who had to find a picture of a lion eating something to get it right.
Quote by Robert G. Ingersoll, 1833-1899, American orator and political leader. He is a forgotten gem of the golden age of American speech making. He is well worth investigating.
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Trivia of the Day
If a saint is depicted with three balls, who is he?
Answer will be at the next posting.
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by Marty Coleman | Jan 10, 2013 | Bodyless Ghirl Ghosts - 2012-2013 |
Prints are still available. $25.00
The Girl Ghosts Get Lost
Mabel and Ethel were frightened by the sudden sound at their kitchen window. They were in the living room watching a show about the French Revolution and Ethel didn’t want to miss the part about the decapitations so she asked her ‘sister’ to put it on hold while she went to investigate. Ethel figured it was probably a bird that had hit the window but instead was greeted by 15 bodyless girl ghosts pressed up against the glass looking cold and lost. Ethel called to Mabel to come right away.
Mabel yelled from the other room, “Is it a person? Cuz I ain’t gotta bra on and am not going in there if it is!”
Ethel said, “Not Exactly.”
After Mabel came in, covering herself just in case Ethel was lying, they discussed what to do. It was decided that they looked harmless enough and it was very cold out so they should do something. They opened the door and let them in.
The first girl ghost who came in asked, ” Can you tell us how to get to Wolla Tompo? We are lost because our GPS (ghost positioning system) gave out on us in Belltramp.”
Mabel brought out an old fashioned paper map and laid it out on the table and pointed in the upper right corner, “If you just go over this hill behind our house and fly…you are flying, right?… fly north until you see the big ugly rock quarry that is shaped like a peeing dog, you will find the town just east of there. Look for the big sign advertising the new crematorium.”
Penelope, the leader of the Girl Ghost gang said, “Thanks, can you tell me how long it might take?”
Ethel responded, “Well, it takes us about 15 minutes on our brooms, but we aren’t very fast.”
Isabel, Penelope’s wise-cracking sidekick said, “I wish we had brooms but since we don’t have hands they probably wouldn’t help much.”
Mabel asked them if they would like some tea, to which they all replied yes except for Mergatroid, the picky one. She wanted to know if it had caffeine in it and any fruit or flowers because that made her try to throw up. Bodyless ghosts don’t actually throw up of course, not having bodies, but they can gag really well. Mabel found a tea that fit the bill, went to the stove and put on some water to boil.
They spent about an hour having a fun time talking while floating around the kitchen area. They explained about their flight, why they were going to Wolla Tompo, and what there was to do there. They left shortly thereafter, warm and refreshed. Mabel and Ethel mopped up all the ice tea that landed on the floor since they had no stomaches and went back to watching the TV show.
Ethel thought the decapitation part was very interesting.
The End
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Drawing and short, short story by Marty Coleman, who made it all up.
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Trivia question from yesterday:
What year did Televisions appear on retail shelves?
Answer: 1938
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by Marty Coleman | Jan 9, 2013 | Uncategorized |
What is the complexion of your lies? Do they really lead darker? Tell me a story about a white lie.
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Drawing by Marty Coleman
Quote by William S. Paley
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Trivia question of the day
What year did Televisions appear on retail shelves?
Come back tomorrow for the answer.
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by Marty Coleman | Jan 8, 2013 | Oscar Wilde |
I don’t believe this, but have known a lot of people in my life, even been married to a few, who are chronically late and they would concur with this opinion! I tend to be on the punctual side.
What about you, are you chronically late or perhaps chronically punctual? Tell us about it, ok?
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Drawing by Marty Coleman
Quote by Oscar Wilde
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Answer to the Trivia Question from 1/4/13
Who has the largest brain, humans or elephants?
While the elephant brain is physically bigger than a human’s, the human brain takes up a larger percentage of the mass and weight of the human body than the elephant brain does in an elephant. The human thus actually does have the biggest brain of all animals.
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