A Bold Deceiver – Sunset, Tuesday, 3 June 2014
I took a photograph of this sunset while I was sketching it, and the colors in the photo were spectacular, with brilliant gold, yellow and red spreading everywhere. However, perhaps because it was a crude shot, the high contrast blotted out details in what I was seeing — for example, what I noted as a “wonderful sick greenish gray” in the clouds. I saw something less spectacular but interesting in its own right. Of course, in the end it may be hard to pinpoint the real deceiver — the photographer, the painter, or the world itself.
Del’s Lion
Ceramic lion, three feet tall, sitting majestically on my front porch. Old, chipped, scarred, something my uncle had in a barn. This lion lets intruders know: Beware of the Housecat.
The Lion in Winter. Photo by Laura Owen Sutherland.