I did some painting this morning. So I'm posting what I did, and now will give this painting a rest and look at it later to reassess. It's time to get some other paintings going.
On an unrelated topic, except that it involves rocks, as does this painting, I recently saw the eagle in Eagle Rock. It was about noon and I was a passenger in a car headed up Figueroa and onto the 134 freeway west, and I looked up at the big boulder and saw why it is called Eagle Rock! Small mystery solved.
The Eagle Rock. I always think it' a mystery because the boulder itself also kind of looks like an eagle's head, so I wonder if there is one right answer to the Eagle Rock. Does that even make sense
ReplyDeleteMaybe just because my head is here right now, but it looks like an illustration from one of the children's classics. It's how I'd like to think things looked 100 years ago. They probably didn't, even then.
ReplyDeleteThe eagle looks pretty ominous in that photo - as if it's about to swoop down. I'm with Margaret - I always thought that the boulder looks like an eagle's head.
ReplyDeleteMargaret, I kind of thought that, about the head, too, until I saw the shadow made by the outcropping. Besides, I'm just thrilled to have seen this. Usually, I'm the one going "what, where" when someone's pointing authoritatively at Orion's Belt or some such. This time, I saw it on my own--and then confirmed it with that wikipedia article I linked to in the post. But, unless someone knows what was going through the mind of the person who named it, it just a best guess.
ReplyDeleteAH, I'm not sure which children's classic I'd attach this to, but, then, I'm kind of weak on many of the classics. But one of my favorites is one that you apparently love, too: Pippi Longstocking. I've read all of her adventures.
Katherine, I guess our comments just crossed. It was my guess, too, until I saw that shadow.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it’s the other way around, and a children’s classic could be written based on this painting....
ReplyDeleteWilliam might have something there...
ReplyDeleteWilliam and AH: You guys may be on to something--but I'll have to leave it to you writers. You two definitely have a nice rhythm going with ellipses . . . .
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who thought the rock was the eagle's bald head.
ReplyDeleteThe shadow of the bird in flight was pointed out to me.
ButI think that the two images can co-exist. It can be both at the same time.
Because you see the rock from the perspective of the freeway it always will look like an Eagle's head. Pre-freeway and development had you looking up so you would see the eagle in flight. It's all about the perspective
ReplyDeletebtw: there is a little park under the rock with what was once an artist colony perched up against it. A series of small houses. It's worth a visit
PA, I clicked on the link and watched the hiking video. This is just the kind of thing--sheer drop to one side--that scares me.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the story about the “Faster Master Plaster Casters.”
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