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salad time
once a week i have lunch with my songstress friend. we’ve been at it for a good many years.  i’ve grown gray while her hair remains exactly the same as when we first met.  she always always orders the small salad and a glass of wine in a coffee mug (don’t ask!) and i always order something huge and delicious like the chili rellenos or the stuffed eggplant or the spicy calamari along with a glass of wine in a regular glass.  we (almost) always go to the same place. the proprietress has become a friend and some days, like today she brings us a special treat  and stops and talks story with us.  
a ritual.  
like these little collages are becoming. this one has part of a recipe (for a salad) from an old old cookbook. the paper so old it was  disintegrating while i glued it and the two children in cowboy costume!  where are they now?  i’m pretty sure they’re not meeting regularly for lunch. is one of them a song writer?
i’m working on a book to keep them in. nothing fancy but something worthy.

more from The Craftsman’s Handbook by Cennino d’Andrea Cennini

on How to Paint Faces

“take a little  terre-verte and a little white lead, well tempered; and lay two coats all over the face, over the hands, over the feet, and over the nudes.  But for faces of young people with cool flesh color this couch should be tempered, the couch, and the flesh colors too, with yolk of a town hen’s egg, because those are whiter yolks than the ones which country or farm hens produce; those are good, because of their redness, for tempering flesh colors for aged and swarthy persons.”




and those taste better too.

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more backs of things. this one has shadows of transfers and old pattern papers and the fabric over the top of the head is really a sleeve for a rod for hanging.

more from The Craftsman’s Handbook by Cennino d’Andrea Cennini

on How to Paint Faces

“take a little  terre-verte and a little white lead, well tempered; and lay two coats all over the face, over the hands, over the feet, and over the nudes.  But for faces of young people with cool flesh color this couch should be tempered, the couch, and the flesh colors too, with yolk of a town hen’s egg, because those are whiter yolks than the ones which country or farm hens produce; those are good, because of their redness, for tempering flesh colors for aged and swarthy persons.”




and those taste better too.

cut2

more backs of things. this one has shadows of transfers and old pattern papers and the fabric over the top of the head is really a sleeve for a rod for hanging.

i had a dream about my friend katherine.  in it we were walking back to my apartment in ny but when we got there and all along the way, nothing was the same.  it all looked the same but something was slightly off. when we got to the door of my apartment my key wouldn’t open the door. someone else was living there.

i had a dream about my friend katherine.  in it we were walking back to my apartment in ny but when we got there and all along the way, nothing was the same.  it all looked the same but something was slightly off. when we got to the door of my apartment my key wouldn’t open the door. someone else was living there.

i had a dream about my friend katherine.  in it we were walking back to my apartment in ny but when we got there and all along the way, nothing was the same.  it all looked the same but something was slightly off. when we got to the door of my apartment my key wouldn’t open the door. someone else was living there.