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 rainbow
At the bottom edge of the below painting there are catfish (and therefore, the fisherman in the painting might catch a catfish).
Threshold; Catfish at the bridge
The glass below conatins what appears to be a catfish or other type of fish (the dtop edge of the fish, along the ridge). Today looking at it, for a second, it looked very indistinct, almost not there, but I found it. It is somewhat camoflaged by water, and in motion, but the form is much like the more distinct catfish in the above image.
If 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.
Below, a photograph that relates to the next sketch in wax and mineral pigments.
Wading and swimming.
Above, the same dog in the small wax painting below
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)
