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A Present
My mum has been visiting for the holidays. For her recent birthday I decided that instead of making a birthday card from a photo of one the roses from my garden (as I usually do) I would make her a...
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Unfinished Meditation
After a long weekend of a two-day meeting of an American Physical Society committee (hosted in LA this time, so I did not have to travel far), I decided last night to go and do a drop-in-and-draw...
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Apparently it was Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day yesterday, so some might say I missed it. But as you know, I think that every day should be Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, so it is not too...
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LA Phil Rock Star!
When calling to mind the Los Angeles Philharmonic, everyone's (and all the posters') focus is on Gustavo Dudamel, (or, the Dude, as I call him), all unruly hair and visible enthusiasm and so forth, and...
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Around Fifteen
While on a hiding retreat in another town or city, I like to seek out a local group that might be doing a "drop in and draw" session. You show up, pay your money, and there's a safe environment (in a...
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Discovery Coincidence
Some of you are wondering what I'm working on while on retreat. Well, actually there's a nice coincidence here. I'm working on the graphic book that you may have heard me talk about a bit. "The...
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Turned
It was the departmental retreat this weekend, and we all went off on a boat to an island! On the voyage back I decided to practice a little sketching, and found myself surrounded by good subjects,...
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Participatory Art!
As you know I am a big fan of sketching, and tire easily of the remark people make that they "can't draw" - an almost meaningless thing society trains most people to think and say, with the result that...
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Morning Caricatures
Lovely bit of sitting in the sun for a short while after breakfast this morning relaxing by doing some quick freehand sketches from pictures in a magazine. I was experimenting with a pen I love but...
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Morning Portrait
As a contrast to yesterday's quick caricature effort, I went back to one of the pictures in the magazine and did a more careful pencil sketch. Very different kind of exercise and technique needed to...
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Making Marks
Been a while since I got to do some sketching. It is good practice to try to do something every day, but that fell by the wayside a little as far as proper sketches went. It has been busy the last week...
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Sketchy Freedom
Memorial Day - 26th May 2014. I arrive at downtown Los Angeles to enjoy a few moments of the pure joy of looking. Of seeing something in front of me well enough to make a rough representation of it on...
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Stockpiling Notebooks
As you know from my writings and sketches, I like to carry a notebook. People often ask me what types I use, or assume that I use the (increasingly fashionable) Moleskine books. I like Moleskine books...
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Magazine Practice
As a way of degaussing from the heat of physics research involved in producing the recent paper, I spent a bit of time getting my hand back into some proper drawing shape... I looked into some...
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Small World
I've been looking at some of the many changes to Princeton, as I get the chance between sessions at the conference. A significant one for me is that Small World Coffee has really thrived and grown...
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It’s Dynamical Cosmological Constant Day!
As you may know from three previous recent posts on research (here, here, and here), I've been thinking and calculating a lot in the area of dynamical cosmological constant - concerning mostly (but not...
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Hey, You…
Today (Sunday) I devoted my work time to finishing an intensely complicated page. It is the main "establishing shot" type page for a story set in a Natural History Museum. This is another "don't do" if...
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Café Talk
Here's a quick sketch I did while in Princeton last month, at a new café, Café Vienna. (See earlier posts here and here for sketches in an older Princeton Café. I'm using a thicker marker for this...
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In Motion…
Back in Aspen. I went back to LA for a long weekend, and my travel back to Aspen today gave me a lot of good thinking time. Also, I got a few very quick drawings done, such as the one on the right of a...
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Mountain Sketch
I went for a little hike on Sunday. Usually when I'm here visiting at the Aspen Center for Physics I go on several hikes, but this year it looks like I will only do one, and a moderate one at that. I...
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