Tumblr (3.0; @jeffdeluca)http://www.jeffdeluca.com/<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Yin-Yang-Painting-Contemporary-Philosophy/dp/0823059839/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top">The Yin/Yang of Painting: A Contemporary Master Reveals the Secrets of Painting Found in Ancient Chinese Philosophy (Paperback)</a>: <p>A magnificent book on limited palettes, complements and mixing colors. This was recommended by my first instructor and is the basis for his palettes. I feel like I’ve learned what may have taken ten years (or maybe never) to otherwise grok in fullness.</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/438509749http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/438509749Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:39:01 -0500artrisd<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz1sd5oa551qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Tom Murphy aged Jimmy Page Les Paul #1.</p> <p>Can’t help myself; I love this guitar.</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/438215037http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/438215037Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:58:17 -0500music<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.jeffdeluca.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/418835834/tumblr_kx4yygQr4D1qzxqe2&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>One of my fav lines…</p> <p><a href="http://magicinmyeyes.tumblr.com/post/364036813/tea-for-one-going-to-california-led-zeppelin">magicinmyeyes</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://tea-for-one.tumblr.com/post/364036095/going-to-california-led-zeppelin-someone-told">tea-for-one</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><b>Going to California - </b>Led Zeppelin</p> <p><i>Someone told me there’s a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair</i>.</p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/418835834http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/418835834Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:56:33 -0500music<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kykm7fhvDG1qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Cool stamps! :-)</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/418301326http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/418301326Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:26:02 -0500music<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky9qwmISm31qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Tom Murphy aged Jimmy Page Les Paul #1</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/405847759http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/405847759Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:33:58 -0500music<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxercgcHUw1qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>RISD Materials & Techniques - week 4. Glazing. Still learning how this layer by layer process works, and yes the red pear (especially) is too saturated.</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/373729801http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/373729801Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:57:00 -0500risdart<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx3gtrBC871qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>What a nice pair! Jimmy Page #1 and #2, and a Plexi and Hiwatt reissue.</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/362566244http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/362566244Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:37:01 -0500music<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwzrx60bfU1qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Materials & Techniques week 3. The Dead Layer. This layer is close to finished, I just need to work on the reddish pear and blend it better and blend one of the cast shadows. Next week we will be glazing over this layer.</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/359090568http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/359090568Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:46:18 -0500risdart<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwlusdmmE81qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Materials and Techniques week 2.  Bruno underpainting. This is painted in burnt umber only over an indian yellow imprimatura. I’ve no idea how this layer by layer renaissance painting process works yet, so I’m just following along and will learn as we go. (crappy iphone photo)</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/346123017http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/346123017Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:21:00 -0500risdart<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwec1dmLOU1qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>RISD Materials and Techniques week 1. Making a stretched canvas. You start with separate spacer bars that you assemble into the frame and then use a door jamb to form into shape. The pics explain the rest pretty well.</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/339192242http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/339192242Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:53:37 -0500risdart“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”<br/><br/> - <em>Christopher Morley</em>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/337279571http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/337279571Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:07:00 -0500“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”<br/><br/> - <em>Pablo Picasso</em>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/337269433http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/337269433Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:54:09 -0500art<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw017d5Bs71qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The kids started in the Young Artists winter program at RISD today. Matthew is doing Drawing and Catherine is doing Fashion Design. Mum and Dad start their RISD winter semester this week.</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/325659710http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/325659710Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:33:13 -0500risdart<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvzm54zYAw1qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>@PasticheRI tweeted; and we came.</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/325248131http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/325248131Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:07:52 -0500<p>“It was a group personality,” says Page. “I knew from what I’d learned being a session musician that the key was to capture the performance while there’s a mass enthusiasm going on, it becomes totally passionate, you feel the music. A lot of music today, they work electronically, tidying everything up, but that living energy has become sanitised. In Led Zeppelin we managed to do some of those major albums in three weeks. People today can’t understand that. It’s beyond them.”</p> <p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/6906325/Jimmy-Page-whole-lotta-talent.html">Whole Lotta Talent</a></p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/321515772http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/321515772Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:06:17 -0500music<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvia6kGSXA1qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Vintage Wah pedals by Thomas Organ Co. Late ’60s, early ’70s. These are the shit.</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/309353361http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/309353361Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:30:20 -0500music<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvi9gcIeq91qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Night Skiing.</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/309331099http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/309331099Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:14:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvc1bttWl91qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dragged the strat out and played (stumbled) through Machine Head from 20+ year memory. It was fun, so I got out the Page and jammed some Led Zep. Black Dog and Communication Breakdown finished the set (and ended the pain for the neighbors). I’m not a strat person; in fact it’s the only non-historic I own.</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/303302100http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/303302100Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:33:00 -0500music<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv59uaAKh41qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Our Christmas tree, complete with the traditional Yoda tree top ornament ;-)</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/298109232http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/298109232Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:54:10 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv58ll09dc1qzj4wxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>1974 “Bud Box” MXR Phase 90 (not a reissue). These are rare and expensive but totally worth it for the vintage sound (e.g. The Rover, The Wanton Song, Breathe…) The modern Phase 90 sounds very different. That’s ok, unless you’re trying to recreate effects such as the songs listed. I’ll probably get another before I go back home as they’re much easier to find in the USA.</p>http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/298072683http://www.jeffdeluca.com/post/298072683Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:28:00 -0500music