Workshop with H. Stokes (at Pittsburgh Glass). Otters grooming each other
This dinosaur reminds me a little of a happy dog – one that is dear.Academic: as the mirror reflected. I was told once – although by whom I am not certain – as a compliment to myself – that it was not very complimentary to myself. At the time I made the painting, now back 15 plus years, I wasn’t sure why, but now I see this – the shadow on my forehead is rather circular, and the shadow under my mouth, a bit angular – actually, that one is strange, once one notices it (as is the one on my forehead, though as the other, just a shadow) – they were cast by the light fixture, though it looks like I ran into a tree (I did not, though, not so many years back, did, but not smack forward into it).2018, summer. (photo by Judy Sniffen) Photoshopped – image from the original photoshopped, the shadows layered over.Photoshopped – the photshopped image added to- eyebrows lighter in this second version.cropped image, self-portrait, in flowered sun-dress.
Swimmer studies and fishing detail
two boys fishing – detail from a paintingswimmers on a raft and a rainbowRaft, people, rainbow, sketchParallel divers, like the arc of a rainbowThreshold; Catfish at the bridgeIf you look at the upper part of this glass, there is sort of a catfish in it – at least, I see one. It was not intentional, however, fun to look at.
Early Jurassic mural:
Non-academic: 3/16 scale preliminary working sketch of mural. on heavy cotton rag paper, acrylic gesso ground, acrylic paint. Much was borrowed for this mural – in particular, the two aerial dinosaurs, though not exactly like the originals from a museum of natural science, they are in spirit very close. Dinosaur mural
Rainwater – a puddle up close. Academic for digital photography with JAnderson.Misty Evening. A photograph of a park in Cambridge, MA, designed by Stoss. Academic, digital photography with JA.
Textile machinery is in the human and animal life section, rather than plants, as the textile mill I worked in was a woolen textile mill, the wool from sheep and goats and camels. Of course, I could have a machinery section, or a parts drawing section, but do not at the moment. Anyway, the mill being along the river, was an odd sort of interior landscape in a way, something the writer of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory conveyed in that children’s book. Here are some sketches drawn from inside a vertical textile mill (included here with permission from the company)
