pecan tree series

On the last day with the family in Dexter this winter holiday, I went back to the transplanted pecan trees that I photographed in the snow last year.

Bridgette was describing the trees in San Diego as very Dr. Seuss-ian and how they may have inspired Theodore Geisel. I find these trees even more wonderous. They haven't changed much in a year but I can tell they are on their way back. Twenty minutes before sunset (top) and 5 minutes after sunset (bottom).

extra hard leaving this place

From a short little walk with half of the dog pack. This is a view looking west over the reservoir on the Bogle ranch this morning before the wind storm hit. Air temperature in the high 50's, December sun hitting my dark sweater, looking for trout in the water...it's going to be extra hard leaving this place.

hope, new mexico style

Happy Holidays. Yesterday, Christmas Eve, Bridgette and I stopped briefly in Hope, New Mexico, a tiny speed trap of a town 30 minutes away from Artesia.  

I have had studio withdrawal for the last ten days and am anxious to get back to the basement to commence work on the anthotypes as well as the Vandyke Brown prints for the Governor's Awards. In the meantime, it's good to do a little camera work even though it feels like I will have to come back here in a year's time with the 8x10 Burke and James camera. No room for it this trip. The back of the car is packed with six years worth of images in museum cases and clam shell boxes.

Opening Reception Date for Image Ohio Eleven

In response to an email, the director of Roy G Biv gallery, Justin Luna, wrote me with the date for the opening reception for ImageOhio 11.

The opening reception will take place on Thursday, Jan 20 from 6-8pm at the Fort Hayes Shot Tower gallery. If bad weather strikes, there is a  snow date of Thursday, Jan 27, 6-8pm.


Below is a detail from an unfixed top panel of Roots with Dirt Clumps in Sixteen Pieces.

To Do List, File Under Found Images

mental note to add this to the do list...

Found images, slides actually, of Cypress Garden water skiers performing. All the slides have all shifted into the deep magenta having lost most of their cyan layer. I plan on printing these in gum and want to maintain the color shift visible in the surviving images.

Jud Yalkut's Review of Sinclair's Exhibitions Last Month

Here is a link to Jud Yalkut's review of Glen Cebulash's exhibition last month at Sinclair College's Triangle Gallery. This appeared in an insert in the Dayton City Paper early in November (2010). At the end of the review there are a couple of paragraphs on the "from walking" exhibition in the Works on Paper gallery.


http://www.onestopnewsstand.com/dayton/expressionism-and-constructivism

50 cc of pokeberry juice

Preparation for future anthotypes. This is the last of this year's pokeberry juice. I am hoping it is enough to coat a large sheet of Fabriano or two. In the image you get a hint of my laboratory set-up. Coffee filters stained with pokeberry juice, a graduated cylinder and transfer pipette. Even a hand made circular filter made from Japanese paper. I haven't thrown these away, hoarder that I am. Perhaps an image of Dr. Frangst will make it onto three of the stained filters for the Naturalist exhibition.

black tape and the arm of Laura Lisbon

Yesterday, I was documenting paintings and drawings by Laura Lisbon in her studio and at OSU's clean space. There are a few incidental snaps I want to work with.

Here is something that will become something else, "Arm of Laura Lisbon".

Governor's Awards: Who's Getting Original Artwork By an Artist Named Schanberger

The Ohio Arts Council has announced the winners for next years Governor's Awards which will be given out on Arts Day, May 11th 2011.

From Amy McCay's press release on the Ohio Arts Council website...

Seven winners were chosen to receive the 2011 Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio. Winners were selected from 73 nominations submitted by individuals and organizations throughout Ohio. The Awards will be presented at a luncheon ceremony honoring winners and members of the Ohio Legislature at noon on May 11, 2011 at the Columbus Athenaeum in downtown Columbus. The luncheon is hosted by the Ohio Arts Council and Ohio Citizens for the Arts Foundation. Winners will receive an original work of art by Dayton photographer Francis Schanberger.

The seven award categories and recipients are: Arts Administration, Art Falco, PlayhouseSquare (Cleveland); Arts Education, Michael Lippert (Dayton); Arts Patron, Mary Wolfe (Perrysburg); Business Support of the Arts, Freund, Freeze & Arnold (Dayton); Community Development & Participation, Lancaster Festival (Lancaster); Individual Artist, James Friedman, photographer (Columbus); Irma Lazarus Award, Dr. Wayne Lawson (Columbus). Their full bios are listed below.




                              

For the biographies of the winners as well as the full article please visit the Ohio Arts Council website at http://www.oac.state.oh.us/News/NewsArticle.asp?intArticleId=578

NYAB Event - "Winners of Soho Photo's Sixth Annual Alternative Processes Competition" Exhibition

Today is the last day for the 2010 Soho Photo Gallery Alternative Processes Exhibition.


NYAB Event - "Winners of Soho Photo's Sixth Annual Alternative Processes Competition" Exhibition

Opening hours

From 1pm to 6pm
Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays

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Here's Looking at You: Portraits in Ohio January 27 - April 17, 2011

Here's something to put on the radar because December will be over before you can say nuciferous.

The following is a press release from the Ohio Arts Council Website.

The Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery Presents Here's Looking at You: Portraits in Ohio January 27 - April 17, 2011
by Amy McKay
The Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery will present Here’s Looking at You: Portraits in Ohio from January 27- April 17, 2011.
Curated by Kay Koeninger, the exhibition features 14 Ohio artists who stretch the idea of what a portrait can be. Through their eyes, we see not only the world but ourselves and others in a transformative new light.They are not constrained by a past art form but are energized and profoundly inspired by it, using a variety of mediums—from photography to charcoal to stoneware to acrylic painting—to create unforgettable portraits.
“The Ohio artists whose work is represented here use a dizzying array of approaches and materials,” said Curator Kay Koeninger. “Some do portraits of dear friends or of strangers; some do portraits based in fantasy and imagination; others do self-portraits. But despite their variety, all offer us a strong dialogue between viewer and subject that is unique in art; all offer us a unique insight not only into others but also ourselves.”
Join the Riffe Gallery for the opening of Here’s Looking at You on Thursday, January 27 from 5 to 7 p.m. Curator Kay Koeninger will lead a tour of the exhibition on Friday, January 28 from noon to 1 p.m.
Artists in the show include: Amy Kollar Anderson (Dayton), Leslie Adams (Toledo), Sid Chafetz (Columbus), Ruth Finley (Cleveland), Leesa Haapapuro (Dayton), Marcella Hackbardt (Mount Vernon), Chas Ray Krider (Columbus), Baila Litton (Cleveland), James Pate (Dayton), Ellen Jean Price (Oxford), Leslie Shiels (Cincinnati), Francis Schanberger (Dayton), Marty Shuter (Columbus) and Chun Arthur Wang (Columbus).
The Riffe Gallery will also host a free family workshop and two creative writing workshops in the gallery during the exhibition. Join Dayton artist Leesa Haapapuro in creating your own portrait in clay! Registration is required as space is limited; all children must be accompanied by a registered adult. Register for the Family Workshop online at www.riffegallery.org between, Monday, January 31 to Monday, March 28, 2011. Ohio author and educator Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld will lead the creative writing workshops on February 28 and March 7 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. More details and registration information are forthcoming.
Here's Looking at You: Portraits in Ohio is presented by the Riffe Gallery with support from the Ohio Building Authority, and media support from CD101, CityScene, Ohio Magazine, Time Warner Cable and 90.5 WCBE.

a photographer photographing

From Japan this morning came a photograph that threw me back in time. Five years and as many months Satoru Yoshioka came to visit me a few times at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin. This is a photograph he took of me while I was photographing the lagoon and marsh just east of Rodeo beach. Just close your eyes and imagine the sound of coyotes howling in the mist.

Please visit Satoru Yoshioka's website at http://www.sypi.com/

Dr. Frangst in Pokeberry Anthotype

Maybe this is the start of several anthotypes that will show up in the March "the Naturalists" exhibition.

mathematics in intense pink and I have no idea what is this

studio update.

Mathematics in intense pink. Today I will be making the first layer of a two color gum bichromate using Intense Pink. At somepoint Kate Bush's Lionheart will be playing. The image is a found object (seen on left side of the picture) picked up walking through South Park on the way to school. I have no idea what this is. If you know, please email me at frangst@gmail.com.

Last Chance for "from walking"

push past your prejudice. from walking is not pedestrian or maybe it is but not in that way. You have only a few more days to see my response to the exhibition space in Sinclair College's Building 13, namely the Works on Paper Gallery.

I de-install on Friday, November 19th.

forgotten but not lost

Have you ever had one of those moments where you looked at a snapshot and couldn't remember the ins and outs of the picture. I completely forgot about OOVAR. Two weeks ago in some mad dash I carefully framed two pieces, dropped them off in Columbus and then forgot about them. It's not senility but rather two birthdays that just happened for Bridgette and myself.

The Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry juried exhibition is underway. From November 8th until January 3rd you can look at work representing a small sampling of the type of art made by Ohioans that display their work online...but in a real space.  The Sixth Annual OOVAR exhibition is on display at the Main Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library. Go to the second floor and in the Arts and Humanities section you should easily locate the exhibition.

and the OOVAR site is...


http://www.ohioonlinearts.org/

Tribeca Gallery Preview

Maybe this will bring some additional traffic to the Alternative Processes Exhibition...

 

Soho Photo Gallery will be taking part in the Tribeca Gallery Preview event on Saturday, November 13th. Soho Photo is currently showing the Sixth Annual Alternative Processes Competition, juried by France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman, in the gallery upstairs along with Dan Burkholder's "The Next Phase: iPhone Photographs". Both exhibitions will run from Nov. 2nd until December 4th. I have two Vandyke Brown Prints in this showing of Altenative Processes: "Sting Ray / Kite" (Honorable Mention) and "Two Leaf Stems".

Other galleries taking part in the Tribeca Gallery Preview are Trans.LUXE Gallery, carriage trade, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, KS Art, Pelavin Gallery, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Hal Bromm, and the MELA Foundation (Dream House).

Website

I have a new website but first ...

the old website, www.frangst.com, is temporarily disabled but eventually will point to my new site.

Please change your bookmarks to:

www.francisschanberger.com

It has most of the Forces of Nature and some of the new from walking. Most of the latter may be seen  here. Currently it doesn't have any artwork (Mis-Taken, Dr. Frangst and Sibling Rivalries), on it from before 2008 but I hope to have everything from 1997 to the present up on the website by the end of the week.

Opening Tonight at Soho Photo

The sixth incarnation of the alternative process photography competition opens tonight at Soho Photo Gallery. Both "Sting / Ray Kite" (honorable mention) and "Two Leaf Stems" are included in this 2010 exhibition of works by 40 artists from all over the world of alternative and historical process photography. The exhibition will run through the month of November.

The artists included in the exhibtion are:
May Perkins-Benton, Timothy McCoy, David Puntel, Jackie Bauer, Ilya Feldshteyn, Sarah Nesbitt, Mary Wanless, Loli Kantor, Stephen Murphy, Ron Cowie, Peter Lindstrom, Anne Hopkins, Ansley West, Travis Hocutt, Tony DeBone, Jan Kapoor, Michele Cole, Jennifer Spencer, Lyn Slate, Frank Lopez, Cynthia Morgan Batmanis, S. Gayle Stevens, Roxanne Guez, Lori Bell, Marky Kauffmann, Diana Bloomfield, Michael Frels, Yukiko Shimizu, Kelsey Vance, Bruce Rathbun, Karen Divine, Allan Barnes, Milo Fay, Cara Lee Wade, Thomas Harris, Gwen Walstrand, Michael McCullough, Barbara Ethan and Patty Rogers.

return to New York, Soho Photo's Alternative Processes Exhibition

Below is the press release for the latest incarnation of the Alternative Photography Exhibition at Soho Photo. Two Leaf Stems and Sting Ray / Kite (Honorable Mention) are both included.

The list of artists can be downloaded in pdf form at:

http://www.sohophoto.com/downloads/alt_process_winners_2010.pdf

For Immediate Release:                                November 2 to December 4, 2010 Blue Tree© Marky Kauffmann, 1st place Winners of Soho Photo's Sixth Annual Alternative  Processes Competition plus   The Next Phase: IPhone Photographs by Dan Burkholder    OPENING RECEPTION:    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 6-8 PM    Gallery Hours:    Wednesdays - Sundays, 1-6 PM    and by Appointment    Contact: Wayne Parsons    info@sohophoto.com or 212.662.5532 New York, NY- Soho Photo is pleased to announce that its November show will feature the winning entries in its Sixth Annual Alternative Processes Competition as well as its guest exhibition by Dan Burkholder entitled The Next Phase: iPhone Photographs. This year's Alternative Processes Competition presents the winning images of some 40 photographers from across the United States. The hundreds of images that were submitted for this competition represent a wide range of alternative methods that can include beeswax paper negative, cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, platinum/palladium, gum dichromate, gold toned salt print, tintype, and ziatype. This year's jurors were France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman. Both are fine art photographers and scholars who specialize in early photographic processes, most notably, wet-plate collodion. Mark has researched, practiced and taught historic processes for over 20 years and is currently process historian at George Eastman House. France is an artist, writer, and educator at Scully & Osterman Studio and guest scholar at Eastman House. After selecting the winners, the jurors remarked, "We were particularly impressed to see a surge of new talent. The winning entries demonstrated an advanced level of sophistication in choosing a process to support their vision, competency with their medium of choice, and most importantly, they had something to say." A complete list of winners is at www.sohophoto.com. The 2010 competition's top winners are: 1st Place: Marky Kauffmann, Blue Tree 2nd Place: Ronald Cowie, Lisa's Hat 3rd Place: Peter Lindstrom, Camden Street In the Upstairs Gallery....

George Washington Bridge in Rain ©Dan Burkholder The Next Phase: iPhone Photographs by November guest exhibitor Dan Burkholder will be shown in our upstairs gallery. Burkholder says, "Photographing and stylizing images with the iPhone is one of the purest photographic phenomenon I've experienced during more than four decades of using a camera. With no gap between the moment of capture and time of enhancement, I find my emotional reaction to the subject becomes an integral part of the final image, in a way that's much more honest and fluid than waiting to return to the computer or darkroom."   Also in November, Gallery members who print in alternative processes will show some of their recent work.   Visit Soho Photo Gallery Soho Photo Gallery has been showcasing a broad spectrum of imagery by emerging and veteran photographers since 1971. The Gallery is in New York's historic TriBeCa district, three blocks south of Canal Street between West Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Subways: #1 to Franklin Street or the A, C, E,  N, R or #6 to Canal Street.

they're fading and tattoo advice needed

Tattoo advice needed. A few days ago I mused out loud about getting a tattoo for my extended twenty fifth birthday. One should never ask a gentleman his true age. Well...the musings have gained a life of their own. Call it the deliriums of mid-life. I call it love of Robert Crumb and August Sander. It's gone beyond should I get a tattoo to who would be able to create a Robert Crumb drawing of August Sander's "Konditor, Köln, 1928"?

No new pics of the anthotypes to show, but the window treatment is working. Bridgette and I took a look at them late this afternoon and noticed that the ground looked lighter i.e. significant loss of density in the highlight areas.

Pokeberry Anthotype Attempt Number Three (and Four)

If at first I don't succeed, try, try again. If at second I don't succeed, try, try, try again. This will be anthotype attempt number three and number four. The first attempt got washed away by rain because I overestimated the water proof qualities of an IKEA frame. The second attempt was stolen from a public field in South Park after a week of exposure. That anthotype was in an ugly World Imports wood frame stained green and purchased from a thrift store. The loss of the negative and exhibition preparations prevented me from replacing it very quickly.

So here is attempt number three. I think I have solved both the theft issue (thanks Chasper) as well as the water proof issue. Both anthotypes are located in the sunniest windows in our house and, if Bridgette agrees their placement, I should have some anthotypes done in time before the Bogle clan descends on Dayton.

from walking

With a sigh of relief I announce the completed installation and opening of from walking.  Four large scale pieces and the ever expanding Gingko Leaf Grid. The exhibition in the Works on Paper Gallery, runs concurrently with Glen Cebulash's show at the Triangle Gallery from October 15th (today) until November 18th.  Go to the fourth floor of building 13 on the campus of Sinclair College in downtown Dayton.

Thank you Bridgette for painting the map tacks!

gingko-tober

ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO which is my way of assigning an image a letter in the growing Ginkgo Leaf Grid.

To think that I began collecting and scanning these leaves about a year ago.

The grid will be at 15 on October 15 for the Sinclair College exhibition in the Works on Paper gallery. Here is a look at number 14 which will end up being Gingko Leaf N.

wouldn't this make a lovely postcard?

Here is one version of the Gingko Grid that might just be installed next month at Sinclair College's Works on Paper Gallery. Progress has been slow on other pieces. I have three large tiled pieces and the Gingko Grid. If things go well I might have at least one other larger piece and the grid may grow to 15 pieces from the current 12.

Anyone have a roll of amberlith or rubylith that they want to part with?

the proverbial drawing board is an open field

noteworthy: Make your way to building 13 to see...

Bridgette Bogle has created a drawing installation as part of the 2010 Faculty show at Sinclair College's Triangle Gallery. Next month I will be across the way in the Works on Paper gallery concurrent with Glen Cebalash in the Triangle Gallery.

Back to the drawing board for a couple of projects. My first attempt at an Anthrotype got rained on and the very water soluble vegetable matter of the pokeberry juice washed away. The transparency didn't fair to well either. As of yesterday, I have begun attempt number two. It is in an open field in the South Park neighborhood. I plan to move the printing frame around, perhaps taking it to school to leave it in the practice field while the marching band does their drills. All in an attempt to get some sunlight to fall on the Anthrotype for long periods of time.

Over the last 9 months, perhaps longer, there has been a slight shift in the color of the Vandykes that I have been producing. The really rich dark brown that caught Chris Anderson's eye two years ago is gone. It's time to do some testing including re-visiting my old processing regime. Tonight I processed a print and went without using any citric acid in the processing. It seems to have made a difference. Only with a dry down and the morning light will I be able to tell.

Pokeberry Anthotype Day One -Three

I began the anthotype exposure two days ago. Based upon what I have seen after two days and knowing how light is at a premium in back of the house, I expect the exposure to take about 3 weeks.

did someone say "Pokeberry Anthotype"?

It's pokeberry harvesting season and while I am a little fuzzy on how edible they are, the birds love them and they are the perfect organic material to create an anthotype.

For those of you reading this who don't know what an anthotype is, let me offer a little information. The anthotype is yet another process invented by Sir John Herschel around 1842. It is a direct postive process because the sun bleaches away unprotected areas of a substrate coated with organic dye. If I were to use a photographic negative, I would get a copy of that negative in anthotype. If use a postive print or transparency such as the image above, I would get a single color postive copy of the picture. Here's a link to an exhibtion of anthotypes that took place at Ryerson University. http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/topographica/Anthotype.html

Herschel used pigments from flowers such as the Iris for this process. Contemporary practitioners have used beets and berries for creating their images.

This will be my first anthotype and I plan on giving the exposure about 3 weeks in the late summer early autumn Ohio sun to have a really strong image. I'll post here once the exposure is started.

Let the grand experiment begin.

The Art of the PhotoArchive published

University Press Antwerp (UPA) has published The Art of the PhotoArchive: 170 Years of Photography and Heritage. The book represents a collaboration between Roger Kockaerts, founder of Atelier pH 7, and art historian Johan Swinnen and contains many of the photographs exhibited last year at the Free University of Brussels.

The Art of the PhotoArchive's main aim is to assist in identifying types of photographs and the illustrations range from 19th century to contemporary photographs.

Gingko Photogram Lab Coat may be seen on page 291.

roots with dirt clumps in 16 pieces

Here is the second of my large scale pieces, Roots with Dirt Clumps in 16 Pieces. The issue of justifying this scale is resolved for me since I now notice the clumps of soil that I didn't see while preparing the negative. I am optimistic I can create at least 3 more large scale pieces, including a light ground one, for the Sinclair Exhibit in October.

tree bark in fourteen pieces as my height

Here is the start of new work. It remains in Vandyke brown but the scale of the piece and construction hopefully draw (even) more attention to the physical nature of the print.

Tree Bark in Fourteen Pieces as My Height is composed of 14 pieces of 9x7 inch vandyke brown prints pieced together with map pins. It actually is the same height (give or take a half inch) as me.

This will be one of at least four new large scale pieces to be shown at Sinclair College's "Works on Paper" gallery starting in early October. In fact the scale of the pieces is specific to the new display space on the fourth floor of building 13.

lost in translation

I've been wanting to do this for some time, namely look at an image at its earliest stage and compare it to one nearing completion. The left represents the Vandyke Brown print of the scanned botanical sample on the right.

For me it answers a couple of questions. The first being "why go through all the labor of printing this out as a Vandyke Brown print on an unusual paper?" The second question is somewhat related to the first question, "what remains of the original subject?"

Gushy on Chincoteague Island

This week Bridgette and I escaped Dayton for a few days. Jill and Tim invited us to stay at their beach house on Chincoteague Island. I managed to get to the water on two days. It was a mini vacation even though I brought some art documentation work with me which ate up most of Wednesday which was the day the salt cowboys ran the swimming of the ponies.

I'll be uploading more images to Flickr this week.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/frangst/

In the meantime here is an image from the carousel in the Chincoteague carnival grounds. This image was taken with a 55mm Diana lens on a Canon digital rebel. Gushy!

ohio state fair fine arts exhibition 2010

The Ohio State Fair opened up today. Besides the butter sculptures that Bridgette and I love so much, one should mention the Fine Arts Exhibition. This year the Schanbogles are represented (both Bridgette and I have work in the professional divsion) and while we were not able to attend last night's reception we will eventually make it over there to see everyone's work.

In the meantime some record keeping. My accepted entries that I will never again be able to submit to the state fair are...

Hairy Cemetery Nut, left

Decaying Leaf (Apron), middle

Split Pod (Chaps), right

a piece of sky

one of the things I do on the side is document art work. For the last eight years I have had the opportunity to photograph objects and installations by Suzanne Silver.

Today was one such day with the session spanning three rooms, lots of loose work on paper, warm (hot) humid temperatures and about seven hours including the jaunt over to west campus.

There was a parking ticket...grrrrrrrr...but I did park in a loading zone for four hours....grrrrr...but it was a hot, humid, sunny Sunday.

it's what hot, humid days are for

lumen prints, it's what the hot, humid days of summer are for.

continuing the found on a walk theme. These seeds are from about 3 houses south of our house. Might even be in front of the house David Esrati's parents are living in.

working title

Now I am a point where the title of the vandyke brown prints, Forces of Nature, seems to be a disservice.

In October I will be showing a different version of this work at Sinclair Community College's Works on Paper gallery. Three quarters will be new.

I was pondering this a couple of days ago. I was experimenting with:

from my walks; walking, wanting walking, walk

...mainly as a way to bring the viewer into the process of making these images, their selection, even their inception.

so the (working and hopefully final) title will be:


from walking

and medium:

Vandyke Brown Prints (Photography)

visiting with old friends

Talk about things that don't get talked about when one is talking with someone about art. On the list of many things about being an artist that isn't "fun". Imagine cleaning out your basement and visiting a therapist. Now mix the two and you have "revisiting old work" or in the case of the self-portraits, "visiting with old friends".

I was pulling stuff up from the basement to show Kay Koeninger for a future exhibit on portraits. Don't get me wrong. I love the work from my thesis exhibition. How could Narcissus not love his own reflection? I don't love how I've stored the work (it's big for how I work). There's old artist tape and velcro sticking to the velcro not meant to be in contact. I was an installation artist in 2002. Now, I think I'm a mat and frame artist.

So I will be spending some time this week with old friends, trying to figure out who will be going to the Riffe gallery in late January and how exactly an installation in 2002 will translate, in part, to a new space in 2010.

beardos five

Why did I pull the Fisher Price Fun Photo Maker off the shelf and start playing with it (again)? I have a love hate relationship with this camera and dread having to reload the pink cassettes with thermal fax (point of purchase receipt) paper once they run out. It only focuses well at arms length or closer so it is a natural for self-portraits.

What's changed since the mis-taken exhibition in 2002? I have a wisp of goatee that looks like it has been inspired by Tim Burton's A Nightmare Before Christmas.

So with that said, I present to you my fifth attempt to capture my beard with the Fun Photo Maker. Here is Beardos #5.

gingko leaf #13

I am expanding the grid of gingkos. Slowly.

Here is Gingko Leaf #13 which I will tentatively call Squashed Gingko M.

meet B.O.B., burnt out bulb or Bob for short

meet B.O.B., burnt out bulb or Bob for short.

One thing leads to another. Like a FIXX song from the 80's. I was finally over the proverbial hump printing a commision in palladium when ...

...the bulb burnt out. The burnt out bulb became a obstacle and a subject. The silver nitrate is running out. There's plenty of gum and potassium dichromate. My wife has contributed tubes of water color. Burnt out bulb. B.O.B.

Bob in eggplant.

Sorry for the speckles. The successful print is in DVAC. This one has a failure of size (PVA medium).

Tavis Lothar has finally exhibited a print.

this is a cigar

This is a cigar. This is a catnip cigar. The illustration is your cat smoking a catnip cigar.

My question: "Which Phillip Morris catnip executive dreamed up the catnip cigar?"