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    • Thank, I worked all weekend on this one. I really spent a long, long time trying to get the values right.
      I finally decided to just let it be done. I could have messed with it endlessly. I am trying to get
      a better understanding of gray, in more ways that just images, life as well.

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      • Gotcha. 😉 I love my heavy blacks, and personally, I think grey is so much harder to master than merely jet black or overexposed whites. Grey can look awfully dreadful if not babied, you know? I totally appreciate that you’re dedicating your time, focus, and attention to GREY. That’s awesome. :0)

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      • Yeah, I as well really like high contrast, rich darks, blown out lights. Those ways are jarring. A lot of my thinking was like that…
        There is always that vast amount of value in the middle. Yeah, I think I have good line quality, but the shading needs to be
        developed, babied.. Trying to deal with it like this. Take the same middle grey, a sheet of it, put that grey up to a black, and it
        looks really bright..Take that same grey, put it up to white, and it looks darker. So it is in the simplicity, in the sheets of grey,
        that I need to work on.. I should work slow, let it develop.

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      • I like the way you put that. Makes me realize (more) that our human perceptions are very much the same. We weigh and see ourselves through various black to grey to white filters, and depending on which background we choose (grey-black or grey-white)- we act and behave accordingly.

        Or maybe I’ve just had too much psychology. 😉

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      • Yes, it is relative, depending on the situation..I am smiling right now..It is funny..
        I think a lot of people, myself included had a bit of a psychology overdose. I used to kid
        that the best way to learn psychology is to be a patient. You have probably heard of the study
        where a bunch of shrinks admit themselves to a unit, not contacting anyone on the outside, not
        telling intake that they were shrinks..So, they were slammed with haldol upon admittance and
        then got diagnoses..My understanding is for quite some time they could not get out. So I suppose the act of
        just sitting in front of a psychiatrist is a doubt in one’s own sanity.. A scientific study sounds like a punch
        line to a really bad joke. 🙂

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      • Yep, I know the study you’re referring to. (I too have been slammed with Haldol upon admittance to the psych. ward- it’s no picnic! Thorazine wasn’t much fun either.)

        And yeah, you know, if you go to a car lot- the salesman is going to want to sell you a car, because it’s his job.

        Going o see a shrink can be likened to going to see that salesman. The doc’s job is to sell you all sorts of disorders- in various shapes, sizes, colours. If one doesn’t stick- others will. 😉

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      • The truth is funny and frightening.
        I should go the doctor and ask if he has a good lease
        for me on a 2014 Ford Focus. Then I will walk with adderal and
        ritalin. 🙂

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      • Well, Adderal, for me would be really a bad bad thing. It is an opiate mixed with amphetamine for A.D.D or ADHD.
        I do not have that condition. I knew an individual who did have that disability, which at the time I did not understand.
        She went from being kinda spacey in public, to really focused. She played Chess horribly without the medication. With
        Adderal, she kicked my ass in chess. I believe it is a good medication for those without addictive traits. The whole issue
        of medicating children is problematic. I have a friend who was given Ritalin at age 5. He said, ” I remember being 5yrs old,
        I was so lit up.” There are options that are non-addictive for A.D.D, one is called Concerta, which is not amphetamine. I have
        never taken Ritalin or Adderal, and I hope that I never do. So that is my take on it. I think I know way to much about medications. 🙂
        Sheesh , I say all this because of the 2014 Ford Focus. We should make more car jokes. Or how about, I go to the bank teller,
        and say to him, I would like a big mac hold the cheese. Perhaps I could be a drug representative for big pharma, in other words,
        I would be a vulture around the doctors and patients. It is fun trading these thoughts back and forth.

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      • I feel you, Ted. :0) I too am a walking pharmaceutical encyclopedia! Part experience, part knowledge-hungry- I’m forever studying (everything) and consuming large amounts of information: naturally, mental illness, drugs, prison and homelessness are my areas that I’m most passionate about.

        I had no idea that Adderal was an opiate though! (And I know my opiates.) Wow. I grew up with ADD + OCD and a few other things thrown in for good measure. I was never diagnosed, because I never shared that with doctors. But after years of psychological training, I recognize the disorders I had as a child.

        And really, you should have (extra) cheese on your Big Mac because cheese has a natural opioid in it….hehe…(true though).

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