The sciart blog of Glendon Mellow. Works-in-progress and news from my studio.
It's the #SuperBloodMoon.
No, it's evidence of salty water on Mars.
Or the original Old Ones have woken from their stony sleep and are unrolling in the sky.
(Couldn't resist; my old oil painting on stone from my last school project, Fossil Gears, later given to blogger Lousy Canuck/Jason Thibeault was just the right colour to clumsily Photoshop into a night sky.)
Just a quick 'bite this morning.
Hmm. Artrage colours came out with a lot heavier saturation when I switched to Photoshop for cropping. Time to fiddle with some settings.
Halftone and Instagram versions:
Halftone filters.
Instagram filters.
It's not the official last day of summer, but Labour Day is pretty close. Up at 3:30am, worked on a blog post for Symbiartic, breakfast with my wonderful wife and our boys, and a remarkable act of generosity from someone who enjoys my artwork (more on that another time) all set the tone for a bright day.
Michelle suggested we go for an early walk at the Brickworks, an old former quarry here in the heart of Toronto that's now given over to being a market and nature park. It's one of our favourite places in the city.
Already over 30C, we headed out. A few pictures and vines from today.
The Mellow Brothers hard at work.
Tomorrow I'm back at work at INVIVO as usual; Michelle returns part time to teaching; Calvin begins another school year; and Lochlan starts full time day care. Today, we've enjoyed exploring outdoors with turtles, grasshoppers, crickets, bees, blue jays, snails, milkweed, pond fish, and a bright green frog.
Dissolving Twitter Logo by Glendon Mellow
The past few months, I've written a lot about being an artist on Twitter, and ways that our experiences could be improved, both for the viewer and he artists ourselves. I also tried unfollowing everyone and starting over by following equal amounts of men and women. I even fought spam bots.
In addition to this here purty The Flying Trilobite blog , I am also part of the Symbiartic crew along with scientific illustrator Kalliopi Monoyios (@eyeforscience) and cartoonist Katie McKissick (@beatricebiology). Symbiartic is the art+science, or #SciArt blog on the Scientific American blog network. You can follow Symbiartic on Twitter @Symbiartic.
Here's where you'll find some of my thoughts about art and Twitter:
Is it Time for Twitter to Verify Artists?
I Unfollowed Everyone to Build a Better Twitter Feed
Glendon Ranting About Proper Image Use Again
Update: here's some more from 2015: