This technique is called rückenfigur – which I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you. My approach in the Chet and Bernie mysteries is similar, except in words. Chet, the narrator, is a dog, yes, but not a talking one. The effect is like what you see here, except more fun.
Caspar David Friedrich and Me
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Did someone go to the museum over the weekend?
Another similarity perhaps is that those landscapes were fictional as they don’t exist in nature or on the planet. They might go out and sketch in a variety of places over the summer but then they would take those sketches and combine, changes, whatever and you’d end up with a beautiful landscape you could never visit because it doesn’t exist in reality.
Sorta like writing fiction, I guess.
Today is National Guitar day. Who has one? Who plays?
I own an excellent Hirade Takamini that I will never sell. I haven’t played in a decade but at some point when I do start having more free time I’d like to get it out and start to do my exercises and go over the pieces I already know. I took classical guitar lessons in my late 30s for a few years. My teacher left for a Fulbright in Europe and my new teacher kept pushing me to do a recital with the rest of his students, who were all children and tweens. As an almost 40 year old I was not interested and he wouldn’t take my first or second no for an answer. So I quit. Then life happened. But I still love my guitar and hope to eventually get the house, yard and my life in order so I can resume doing the things I love; guitar, knitting, crocheting, needlepoint, quilting. I want to cook more, not just a few days a week. I mean actually cook, not just make a sandwich or soup. The only reason I am keeping up with my watercolor is I leave the house on Wednesdays to attend an in person art class where I have no choice but to paint.
Today it is back to the fence and hopefully getting started on raised beds #3 and #4. I’ve got class tomorrow and then rain starts late afternoon/evening. I need to get the trash ready today because it is going to rain most of the day on Thursday and they collect on Friday so I need to get it ready so I can just quickly put it out and then come back in the house. Needless to say, nothing much is getting done on Thursday or Friday morning. I just hope it is useful rain and not that miserable good for nothing heavy mist/light drizzle we’ve had that doesn’t even soak into the ground.
Greetings!
I suppose the covers of the first eight books in the C&B series might be considered ruckenfigur. (I looked the word up).
I do like the painting.
We are in a snowy pattern in this neck of the woods for the next few days.
Good afternoon to all!
There’s an exhibit of his work and related works at the Met Museum right now.
The in person art class (oil painters) are doing landscapes next. Our instructor talked a little about the landscapes of the romantics. I think it was about winter scenes in particular. He said no one went out in the winter to paint. Or when it was raining, etc. In good weather they would go out and sketch and then return to their studios and combine sketches, adjust things, add, subtract, basically make up the perfect landscape that doesn’t exist. Idealistic landscapes.