As usual, I was looking for something else.  I like to go on Amazon  and order books by the pound (a nice thickie for bedtime reading – unli...

  And let’s not get started on YouTube. I nearly had my channel terminated because they said I was selling drugs. I found an unusual wil...

  So my Lautrec Trek continues. Sometimes I think I'm over it (my God, this is like a bad breakup!), and at other times I think it has j...

  All through the sometimes harrowing biography of Lautrec by Julia Frey, there are indescribably cruel and even monstrous descriptions of h...

  I just don't want to let go of my little friend, just yet. Maybe it's just a distraction from the myriad ongoing health "issu...

  So while digging around in Lautrec Land, I found this, a rather sad diagram (in Spanish) listing all the disabilities Lautrec had. It'...

 

When I decided to look up Lautrec gifs (and somehow, I think the Little Lothario might have liked this strange, primitive form of animation)...

  But I have even less idea what it means! This is one of the many costumes Lautrec liked to don for photographs. He never smiles, which is ...

  Or maybe I'm just lost. My only consolation, these days, is how I can still lose myself in the creative process, whether anyone else s...

  Zoom in, zoom out. Of course nothing like this could be accomplished in the era in which this was painted. But perhaps with our painterly ...