A Site to See

Chris Jordan, photographer

Take a look in particular at "Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait" 2006-2007

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An Artist's Date in the Garden

It's been a really wonderful day. This morning I had a long-overdue bike ride, and I came home and sat out in the garden with a sketchbook and my Derwent pencils.

The tulip was very frustrating. It is a very flesh colored tulip. I had a very difficult time registering any depth in the drawing because I was attempting to remain true to the color. The color is so light, that it just wasn't working out. So I did the best I could with the basic form and then added some depth using colors that were not quite there. The final outcome is not objectionable, but a far cry from the real thing.

I stepped away from the tulip and did the periwinkle flower. Messed one up at the bottom of the page. I was about to write off the day as a "bad art day", but I wasn't ready to relinquish the sunshine just yet. I picked up the book again, drew the top preriwinkle, and decided the tulip couldn't get much worse and "finished" it.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by!

Datebook 4-17 thru Today

No quote for today's spread. I went searching for one, and ended up putting it on tomorrow's spread. How's that for a teaser?




The quote: "The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish." —Robert Jackson

I found this quote on the same day the media released the video of the VT shooter. I was disgusted by the fact they would show it. It served no purpose but to cause additional pain. There was nothing there that the public at large "needed to know". I was somewhat mollified later when they chose to pull it.


The quote: "It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness." —Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897-Dec. 7, 1975)

A note about all the little sketches on these 6 pages: They were all done on Saturday or Sunday.