Flutterby™! : Secret Knowledge, Pt. 1

It's goof-off weekend here at Chez Dan & Charlene, didn't start out that way, but I've been singularly unmotivated on projects. Which means that I've finished the first part of David Hockney's new book, Secret Knowledge, in which he proposes that many of the old masters drew using optical aids. I believe that only the most snobbish would think this matters (apparently many do), after all it's not the craft that makes the artist. What it has done is to help me a little way towards breaking free of the straitjacket of the lens, I've got several images that are borderline keepers, and I'm now inspired to go back in and attack them with GIMP to make them something other than photographs and something other than documentary. Perhaps if some of the models will consent I'll even be able to share 'em at some point.