Like I said in the last post:
Well, I had a productive March, with some paintings worked on, some music moved along in the production process, along with some music recorded .
This post will go into more detail about the progress, even though the weather lately hasn’t been conducive to working outdoors. Today we had a wind advisory, meaning 20-30 mph winds, just enough to get the dirt and dust flying if I felt adventurous enough to try painting when it was in the sixties temperature-wise. It’s hard enough painting when the bugs try to kamakaze themselves into the acrylic paint that I usually paint with. Dunno if the oil paints I recently bought will have the same attraction to bugs.
I got a copy of Henry Dreyfuss’ “Symbol Sourcebook” as I’ve been unsuccessful at locating to copy I bought probably 30 years ago. And that being the second copy I’ve purchased. I include those symbols I think are relevant in my paintings. Just another odd way I have of distinguishing my work from others. Though, I don’t think I’m unique in that respect as I think I read that Jean-Michel Basquiat also had a copy of that book.
“Symbol Sourcebook” is a rather primitive compendium of symbols that Dreyfus’s collected in his endeavors. Originally published in the early 1970s, print quality has either degraded through numerous reprints, or the quality wasn’t great to begin with. But this is no concern to me as I just freehand the symbols in the book, to the extent that the symbols in my works only have a fleeting resemblance of the “original” image.
The sourcebook was an offbeat production even back in the ‘70s, collecting a foreword by Bucky Fuller, which is probably how I got introduced to the book.
