Irvin D Reid Honors College at Wayne State

We took a stroll around Wayne State.

Wayne State is an interesting and eclectic urban university. I guess it has a very good reputation.

And here's one of my latest paintings:


I'm fairly happy with the painting which is gouache on blue paper. I'm NOT happy with the paper, which turns out to be too thin and fragile or with the scanner which did really bad job making this look right--the paint is very reflective to the scanner light--it looks much better in natural light. I swear it looks better in real life. (I'm going to try to IRON it!) The painting is after one by Ray Campbell Smith. The shapes of mine are similar, but the colors are different. And his is watercolor while mine is gouache.

Monoogian Visual Resource Center, Wayne State

It looked interesting inside too, but it was closed. This is on the
Wayne State Campus in Detroit's Cultural District. Click iamges to
view larger.

The Kresge-Ford Arts Building, Wayne State

Wayne State University, The DIA and The Science museum, along with the
Scarab Club and other important sites are all contiguous in the
Cultural District of Detroit.

The sculpture is in the courtyard of the arts building. The last shot
is behind the building and the parking structure at twilight.

I just got in from shoveling the driveway for 20 minutes and didn't
finish, but my hands were painfully cold and I had to warm up.

Wayne State and Behind the Global Tra

Just in case you were getting bored with the Global Trading Center, I tossed in another shot from Wayne State University. It's the Auditorium, an aesthetically appealing building (to me anyway).

The next three shots are from behind the Global Trading Center, across from Tri-Centennial Park. What I wanted to show was how close the Renaissance Center (upscale, gentrified) is to the Global Trading Center where homeless live. What you see is an overgrown alley so full of weeds and junk no one could drive through, and the Ren Center in the background. The first of that series is taken with a wide angle lens with makes the background look farther away but gives you a better view of the alley. The second shows better how close the Ren Center really is. The third is part of the graffiti painted on a metal door--"power to the people." (or not)

Sculpture at Wayne State University

Sculpture at Wayne State University, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. Click image to view larger. Today I went to an all-day Photoshop workshop. I "learned" a lot, too much to take it all in. Don't expect instant results; I'll have to relearn and relearn most of it multiple times before I finally "get it!" I attempted to apply "curves" to this photo but I am not really sure if I did it right or if it helped. I clearly have to practice more.

Wayne State has lots of nice architecture and sculpture.