Red and Rover by Brian Basset for January 19, 2024

I’m begining to feel like my memory is like an Etch-A-Sketch. One or two shakes of my head and I forget pretty much everything.

I say he made a mess

Jackson Pol-lock should be apologizing to US!! (Why the name is forbidden I have no idea.)

I’ve done that on my Etch-A-Scetch.

I had one. Loved it.

Looks like ruined newsprint

The artist should have turned it over, shook it, and tried again.

I think the etch a sketch looks better!

Ohio Art is the big winner in all of this! Brain they should send you a free etch o sketch. LOL !

First it’s tribute to Andy Warhol, then Jackson Pollack! Who will be next, I’m wondering!

I hear that if you stare at it right and focus your eyes past it, it becomes 3D…

It does look like what I used to end up with when using my Etch-a-Sketch.

An Etch-Sketch is nothing more than an X-Y plotter, and there many examples of them in industry. But I wonder if some clever tech guy or gal ever tried to motorize one. That would be fun.

My favorite artists (I have two) are Norman Rockwell and Maxfield Parrish.

I admire Jackson for his technical expertise – think of how difficult it would be to produce such a massive canvas as is shown without stepping in it! That took “talent” of a sort…

Shakespeare wrote “Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye.” For Jackson Pollack’s creations to be considered art, plenty of eyes must need corrective lenses.

Red and Rover …… Where is your likeness painted …… :)

I remember a piece by another artist that my dad showed me when I was a kid. I didn’t like it at all and couldn’t imagine why one would want to hang it on their wall. It wasn’t till I grew up that I found out it was the artist’s expression of having had to flee and leave everything behind to the Nazis in WWII Germany. The artist was bearing witness.

If you study the picture carefully, there is an actual picture in there.

When I was a kid having my turn on the family computer, I had fun playing around in Microsoft Paint. There was a technique involving scribbling wildly, a contrasting background color, and the freehand lasso tool that resulted in an artsy “broken glass” effect. You could even do it more than once, although the computer might lag a bit.