Posting will be off and on for the next two weeks. Work is getting in the way.

Unfinished Nude No.2
gouache
45.7 x 30.5 cm (18" x 12")

I had both a limited time and a limited palette to work with for this painting. Too bad. It could have been quite decent.

• 19th century prize fighting in America. (The New Republic)
• Debt and American foreign policy. (Guernica)
• The jazz photography of Herman Leonard. (Slate)

Green Pillow
gouache
30.5 x 22.9 cm (12" x 9")

If I'm not mistaken the green pillow was actually a green bathrobe.

• Copyright law and industrial expansion in the 19th century. Not what you think. (Spiegel)
• Cultural property be damned. (review)

Black an Green
gouache
22.9 x 30.5 cm (9" x 12")

This pose didn't last long. The model had to abandon it after about twenty minutes. Her neck was killing her.

• Molière's life after death. (Humanities)
• How to write good fiction. (The Atlantic)

Dying Gaul
ink and charcoal
27.9 x 35.6 cm (11" x 14")

The model for this drawing had a knowledge of art history. This pose was modelled after the Roman copy of the Dying Gaul.

The model had a slightly different hair style from the original Gaul. He did have the same moustache, however.

The original (the Roman copy, that is) is posted below.

Dying Gaul
marble

Roman copy of a Greek original (circa 230-220 BC)

• Who owns stolen art? (HistoryNet)
• Daily coffee enemas prevent cancer, or at least, according to Prince Charles. (The New York Review of Books)
• Abolish academic tenure. (Slate)

Buildings
digital image
20.3 x 27.9 cm (8" x11")

Using Photoshop I transformed a rather uninteresting sketch of some buildings into this rather uninteresting digital image of some buildings. Incredible.

I've been rather busy the last couple of days. I hope to get back on track next week.

• Life after death. We can hardly wait. (The Chronicle)
• The Worst of Perth. The worst of anything usually deserves a look. (via things magazine)
• Visually documenting a flight from New York to Berlin. (The New York Times)

Mike with a Pole
gouache
21.6 x 27.9 cm (8.5" x 11")

I don't think that I flattered Mike at all with this brush drawing.

• Literary last words. (The Guardian) (via C-Monster)
• Norman Rockwell's models. (The New York Times)

Man Wrapping His Hands
ink and watercolour
35.6 x 27.9 cm (14" x 11")

Weird colouring.

• Geoffrey Hill, Oxford Professor of Poetry. (The Australian)
• Bad Sex in Fiction Award. (Lapham's Quarterly)
• British brutalism. Architecture, that is. (arch daily)(via C-Monster)

Penguins
graphite
11.4 x 8.9 cm (4.5" x 3.5")

A pretty simple drawing today, one that was done during a visit to an aquarium.

Pencil drawings don't always scan well. In this case the subtlety of graphite was lost in the scan.

À Ton Étoile: reprise à la kalimba par la chanteuse du groupe eve-r. (Gracias a Eduardo Alvarado en El pintor de hierro para el vídeo.)

• The decline of French cuisine. (London Review of Books)
• The mystery of the river sculptures in Toronto has been cleared up. (The Globe & Mail)

Country Lane
oil on canvas
61.0 x 76.2 cm (24" x 30")

For those in the Winnipeg region this lane is a service road which runs off Waverley Street along the La Salle River. The field in the distance is part of La Barrière Park.

• Scrap metal dealers and the theft of sculpture. (artknows)

Telephone Pole No. 2
ink
20.3 x 27.9 cm (8" x 11")

The building fragment on the right of the pole seems out of scale. It probably isn't. It just seems that way.

• Conrad Black: My Prison Education. (The National Post)
• Allan Sanders superheroes. (strawdogs)

Cityscape 3
ink, charcoal, and pastel
22.9 x 30.5 cm (9" x 12")

The buildings in this drawing are very familiar to Winnipeggers. The steep roofed building is the Fort Garry Hotel. The building with the two stage turret is a new addition to the hotel. The Fort Garry is one of the many grand Canadian railway hotels from the turn of the last century. When it was built in 1913 it was the tallest building in city.

• Agnosticiam vs. atheism. (Slate)
• The baker and J. Malcolm Garcia. (Guernica)
• Huge budget cuts are in store for the arts in Britain. (The Guardian)

Cityscape 2
ink and charcoal
20.3 x 27.9 cm (8" x 11")

The shading for this drawing was done without much care. It doesn't seem to give the requisite depth to the drawing.

Does the central building look a bit like an open book? Or is that just me?