Randy Elrod's Blog, page 11

VideoMapping the Montserrat Basilica

I captured amazing video of the experience.

Hiking Paths

My Most Controversial Art Yet. Why?

I grew up smothered by religion. My father and both grandfathers were preachers. Sexual pleasure never came up in family conversations or sermons. To this day. And I’m 66 years old.  Never will I forget, at around age eleven or twelve, waking up with wet white stuff covering my sheet. I had been dreaming about...

What’s Making Me Happy

Many of us are anxious during election seasons, particularly this one when so much is on the line for my birth country. When I’m feeling freaked out and depressed, I turn to things that make me happy, i.e., soothing music—something I put on while I’m cooking comfort food. Here are a few things that make...

My Latest Watercolor

(Click painting to enlarge) Fragmentation Original Watercolor on Handmade Paper 44 x 50 cm I’d like very much to have painted a cohesive picture with a soothing palette today. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with time, produces flowers and grass to cover destruction. But we are a world of fragmented...

Let’s Pretend We’re Dancing in the Streets Of Barcelona

They are achingly beautiful, these romantic cities—Barcelona, Paris, Rome. The contours of Europe are far more mysterious and deeply layered than those of America, much like the “promised land” I had always been told about but knew deep in my heart did not exist. It was like I had died and gone to heaven, and...

Body Language

Graphite and Watercolor on Paper 46 x 61 cm This is the first watercolor I’ve attempted in several months. What does her body language tell you about her?

Leaving Is Most Definitely An Option

There are times in life when leaving is the only healthy option. To leave is to go away from someone or something temporarily or permanently. So many people stay in abusive relationships (emotional and physical), falsely believing they have no option but to stay. Here are a few things I’ve left, and I am much...

Dionysus Discovers Self-Help

I was in a playful mood today, and this appeared. Having a bit of fun dispelling the shame of our sexual organs. Especially us men who, as adolescents, needed someone to help us answer the question, “How large is huge?” Heads up: Contains male nudity. Click on penis to enlarge.

Crecí Muy Parecido a JD Vance. ¿Cómo Acabamos Siendo tan Diferentes?

Leí Hillbilly Elegy cuando apareció por primera vez. La primera parte me conmovió al describir los Apalaches y a su familia y amigos. El resto del libro me pareció poco sincero, con descripciones engañosas y capítulos huecos. Después de la emoción de saber que alguien había escrito un libro muy parecido a mis memorias, A Renaissance Redneck, me dejó...