I like this wall painting at the north-west corner of the 8th and Hope street intersection, and decided to try a digital Banksy.
The wings are too low for their size and span, so anatomically the carrier needs to be very stout. (The original reference is a much taller and thinner person.)
July 27, 2019
Digital graffiti experiment
July 22, 2019
Quick sketch of a hairstyle
I did a quick finger sketch of this passenger hairstyle over my moto x4 phone on the train.
Later I noticed that I traced too many hair strands, so I did a simplified version from memory, still with finger over the phone.
This one took me only a few seconds, versus the original one which took me a few minutes.
July 21, 2019
Quick sketch of a park bench napper
He kept on moving around so was not exactly easy to draw.
July 20, 2019
Quick sketch during a Warhol film session
The SF MOMA Warhol film session contains short films of mostly stationary faces, from which I had a lot of fun finger sketching over a phone.
July 19, 2019
Some recent sketches
I start practicing finger drawing over a cell phone as it is the most convenient device to carry around, and I might not always have a large iPad or physical sketch book.
The combination of small phone screen and obscuring finger is challenging, but I believe it can be overcome with more practice.
July 18, 2019
Steichen on photography
Edward Steichen, a Luxembourg-born photographer who spent most of his life in the US, said that photography is both easy and hard: easy for anyone to master, and hard because, unlike other additive art mediums that start from a blank, photography starts with all the information and one has to learn how to subtract.
July 13, 2019
Get in
I captured this great view from SF-MOMA, in which the wall says:
So you’ve gotten very close, you’ve shared a complete experience.
And the idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting anyway.
Never getting in is the most exciting, but after that, waiting to get in is the most exciting.
Don’t we all tend to be obsessed with what we cannot get in life: the dream job, the dream lover, the dream trip, which pop into reality when we finally have a chance to get in.
July 7, 2019
Luxembourg
This citadel city contains many museums, cultural heritages, and great views, all within walking distances.
July 3, 2019
Mandatory charging versus voluntary tipping
While waiting for the bus to Luxembourg I walked around the Saarbrucken Hbf area, with many interesting sights, folks, shops, and outdoor sitting areas. Like some other parts of Germany (or Europe), one has to pay to use the washrooms in the train station and department stores.
I decided not to bow to any such extortion until I found a place with an old gentleman in nice suit stood by the door holding a tip tray without mandatory charges. I happily put down the same amount that would be required in other places.