21 Jul 2008, 12:30 am
Merle has been brushed by fame!! !
lelia
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21 Jul 2008, 1:58 am
21 Jul 2008, 5:53 am
(Gotta have priorities.) And I hope her Belgians successfully flavor that dreadful potation... 
"Ach! Gie ye sich a baneful brew!"
hu? me not understand
what is this all about?
21 Jul 2008, 6:28 am
Hi Lemon! 
Belgium is the new owner of one of the US's biggest selling beers: Budweiser (whose slogan "This Bud's for you!" has just changed to "Cette Bud's pour vous!" 
Big, burly, grease-covered bubbas in monster trucks are saying it. Honest Inj'un! With pinkies extended! ). <--- [sorry! My Bad! (but funny image)] Congratulations! 
The rest was just train wrecks and confusion. I blame Gromit. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
The whole thing just means: "I luvs yas Lemon , hope you are well, and I want to see some more of your artwork!"
(Wel, wel! Maakt u het? Waar u was? Ik dacht u in idee werd verdwaald! )
21 Jul 2008, 7:11 am
Belgium is the new owner of one of the US's biggest selling beers: Budweiser (whose slogan "This Bud's for you!" has just changed to "Cette Bud's pour vous!"
Big, burly, grease-covered bubbas in monster trucks are saying it. Honest Inj'un! With pinkies extended! ). <--- [sorry! My Bad! (but funny image)] Congratulations! The rest was just train wrecks and confusion. I blame Gromit. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
The whole thing just means: "I luvs yas Lemon , hope you are well, and I want to see some more of your artwork!"
(Wel, wel!
Maakt u het? Waar u was? Ik dacht u in gedachte werd verloren! )no worries, i do not consume alcohol very often anyway,
as for beer, i think belgians are 'conaisseurs', so i it's probably in good hands?
if i would drink beer (on very rare occasions) i'd have a 'rochefort' or a 'chimay', very good and tasty local beers
i wish the world had a bit less of alcohol loving creatures though, but that makes me boring now i guess?
(they point at lemon now "look, there she is, that dirty, boring, stupid creature who doesn't like alcohol that much, what does she want from us anyway"
)
me gone? no no alive as ever, running in the woods,
obsorbed by colours, studying, writing, having chaotic holidays,
family life, looking for a new job for next year, all still there...
i do read on wp, but not always post,
liked your account of the roof
yeah maybe one has to put these things in words
my life has so many words already
but can't i just jump around a little? that's ok too, no?
21 Jul 2008, 7:25 am
Yes, of course! I thought I felt your spirit flowing through here, even though you left no words behind!
Glad you are well and busy - but hopefully not too busy! I'm just about to go run in the woods myself.
I don't drink much alcohol either - maybe half a glass of beer once or twice a year. Boring, boring Chuck. 
(I notice you left no art). (prod. prod. poke. annoy.)
21 Jul 2008, 8:24 am
Yes, of course! I thought I felt your spirit flowing through here, even though you left no words behind!
perhaps a bit yeah
currently studying
yay
hihihaha
(prod. prod. poke. annoy.) i usually do an overview at my website when i have a few paintings done, a few times a year, but i am working at much at the same time, all unfinished, if you drop me your email by pm, i can send you some of the unfinished if you feel like it.
21 Jul 2008, 11:47 am
Dank u wel, dank u vriendelijk!
21 Jul 2008, 1:27 pm
While I was in 'take charge of your life - not just another day' mode, I decided that it was time to suck it up and finally take an art class. 
I wondered if I might learn better under the direct instruction of an artist rather than attending class at one of the local art colleges. I checked out the atelier of one of our local artists. Wow! Was I ever intimidated!
She showed me this picture Justine by Anthony Ryder who had studied in the atelier method under Ted Seth Jacobs, and as a student of the Art Students League of New York:
...and said that if I apply myself and if I possessed the skill I would learn to do portraiture on this scale.
I looked at the picture a while, then said, "She looks very angry."
The artist looked at me like I had six heads and said, "Why do you say that she looks angry?!"
I always look at a person's lips and mouth when they are speaking to me, and I had been looking at Justine's mouth. I said, "See her mouth? She is holding back barely restrained anger. But she's doing her best not to let it show."
The artist looked at me a moment, then said, "...but don't her eyes seem far away - doesn't it look like she is lost in thought?"
I hadn't even noticed her eyes! Trying to make a joke, I said, "See - that's why she's mad. She's thinking about how her husband hadn't taken the dishes out of the dishwasher and put them away, but she's at work, so she can't let her anger show. Otherwise, she'd let loose and scream 'Why doesn't that idiot ever help me out!! ! He left them on purpose - I know he did!! !'"
The artist said, "...erm, I don't think she's angry at all..."
"Oh sure she is. She's seething. I can see that she wants him dead."
"...I don't think..."
"She's plotting his death right now. That's why, along with the restrained anger, her lips betray the barest hint of a satisfied smile."
"No. She's lost in thought, but not in thoughts of murdering her husband."
"It was a safe guess. Don't most women think about murdering their husbands?"
"Most woman do not think of killing at all."
"More like "slow death by torture" kinds of thoughts?"
She looked at me unamused. I could see that she was contemplating my own demise. I also noted the mostly suppressed smile on her lips. I thought it best not to turn my back to her. She was going to enjoy killing me. Death by artbrush? Perhaps a horrible easel accident?!?
Next she showed me Moving toward the Light by Michele Mitchell, who had studied at Atelier Lack:
The artist asked, "What do you see here?"
This one was much easier - being a man, his face lacks the nuance and subtlety that I usually miss in a woman's face. No disguising this man's thoughts! I said, "Clearly, this man has gotten up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. He has been looking out the window at what he had thought a firefly, but as the room has suddenly filled with light he is discovering that it is in fact a meteor, hurtling at him at close to the speed of light. Simultaneously, he is discovering that he isn't actually in his bathroom - the light allows him to see that he is actually in his neighbor's foyer and he is using their large hallway flower pot. Simultaneously, he is wondering how he is going to clean everything up without getting caught. Simultaneously, he is wondering how he got there, and why is he naked? Simultaneously, he is wondering if this is reality or is it (hopefully) just a dream. Simultaneously, it occurs to him that these are going to be his last thoughts. Simultaneously, he thinks, 'If I live, my wife will kill me.' "
Looks like I will be checking out the classes at the nearby art colleges.
21 Jul 2008, 2:50 pm
The Belgians make lemon spirits?
You demonstrate rare insight in your interpretation of visual art. When I explained to people that the picture below showed a shotgun wedding, they wouldn't believe me. Sure, to the untrained eye it may look peaceful, but if you look closely...
21 Jul 2008, 4:39 pm
21 Jul 2008, 5:08 pm
I looked at the picture a while, then said, "She looks very angry."
The artist looked at me like I had six heads and said, "Why do you say that she looks angry?!"
I always look at a person's lips and mouth when they are speaking to me, and I had been looking at Justine's mouth. I said, "See her mouth? She is holding back barely restrained anger. But she's doing her best not to let it show."
The artist looked at me a moment, then said, "...but don't her eyes seem far away - doesn't it look like she is lost in thought?"
She DOES look angry. Really pissed. Her jaw is set and her lips are doing the "ok, whatever you say" mouth. I can't see her eyes.
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Next she showed me Moving toward the Light by Michele Mitchell, who had studied at Atelier Lack:
The artist asked, "What do you see here?"
This one was much easier - being a man, his face lacks the nuance and subtlety that I usually miss in a woman's face. No disguising this man's thoughts! I said, "Clearly, this man has gotten up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. He has been looking out the window at what he had thought a firefly, but as the room has suddenly filled with light he is discovering that it is in fact a meteor, hurtling at him at close to the speed of light. Simultaneously, he is discovering that he isn't actually in his bathroom - the light allows him to see that he is actually in his neighbor's foyer and he is using their large hallway flower pot. Simultaneously, he is wondering how he is going to clean everything up without getting caught. Simultaneously, he is wondering how he got there, and why is he naked? Simultaneously, he is wondering if this is reality or is it (hopefully) just a dream. Simultaneously, it occurs to him that these are going to be his last thoughts. Simultaneously, he thinks, 'If I live, my wife will kill me.' " heee heee heee. I was gonna say he looks like he just stepped in something the pet left on the floor by his bedside as he got up in the middle of the night to find out that the meteor was hurtling out of his closet.
Looks like I will be checking out the classes at the nearby art colleges.
21 Jul 2008, 5:38 pm
SEE?!?
Well, thanks for validating my interpretations. At least I know that if we as Aspies interpret faces incorrectly, we interpret them incorrectly in the same way.
21 Jul 2008, 5:47 pm
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