....and then I woke up!

There has been a while since my last blog. Ah...where did the time go. I've been working on my website revamp a lot. Also, selling on the sidewalk. Actually the sidewalk sales venture has been an exercise in futility. One Saturday the screens on which my paintings were displayed blew over in a stiff breeze. The sound of breaking glass is not soon forgotten. Such is the life of a sstruggling artist. I am considering getting out of the reproduction business and reinventing myself. A new "branding" or rather a "rebranding". Upcoming, iIve gotta go to TX for a college graduation. Should get some interesting sketches. I'm working into more non-objective art work and will paint nothing that is not fun. Life is too short to do those things which are not fun. Of course, there are certain must-be-dons.

STUDIO LISTENING MATTER

• Death Cab For Cutie
• Bela Fleck
• Howie Day
• Billie Holiday
• Frank Sinatra
  

maybe, I'm dreaming...

Alas, there is no picture. It takes time to the photography and all. Is this creativity an itch or what? I'm always wanting to change things. Does anything suit me? Am I the only one who sees things the way they should be? Questions for the ages... Currently, I am enjoying getting away from the restrictive ness of purely representational art work. With great difficulty I move to the pure expressive non-representational. There is comfort in familiar images. Security of knowing. Are those painters who paint with photographically reality uncreative? I don't think so. They are interpreting as they see it. And those of us who sometimes see more that reality or that which is not there? Then there is another name for us.

Studio Listening Matter,

• Ladysmith Black Mumbaza
• Five Blind Boys
• The Ink Spots
• Robert Cray

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge,That myth is more potent than history,That dreams are more powerful than facts,That hope always triumphs over experience,That laughter is the cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."(Robert Fulghum)

With my thoughts wrapped around Juanita I am aware of nothing...

I am still working with "drip images". The inspiration for the above was the stark nakedness of the dead trees in the marshes of the Carolina low county. The zap of color is mine. Sometimes if you load the images in the ccomputer and play with the color saturation you can get some interesting FX.

Yesterday was good. Very creative in the AM, two paintings completed. After my workout and lunch with a glass of red (got a mini-buzz) it was back to work to work on my lesson plan for tonight's lesson in beginning water color. I am continuing to work with heat transfers as a picture making method. Creating pictures by alternate methods is fun.

Studio listening matter:

• Marsha Ball
• The Blind Boys of AL
• Shrimp City Slim
• Rod Stewart

I must think of Jaunita rather than my fate.

Sometime you have to stretch your brain a little. I'm moving into some abstract work. This acrylic on paper began with the idea of a cruciform. From there the accumilation of textures manefested themselves as some of the images of the great northwest. I have always been a fan of totem poles. The iconic imagery is so strong and imaginative. My totem just evolved and unlike the ones of the past it is not symetrical. The "wing" appendages are not the same and the great blue eye at the top sees all. You will note that the base is shrouded in clouds. The moon seemed to be what was needed to complete the composition not only as a graphic element but to add a bit of mystery as well.

Studio listening matter:

• Bograts
• Jennifer Lecko
• James Galway
• Seven Nations

And then there was that time in Las Vegas...

Magic sometimes happens. I am continuing to stretch the possibilities of the two deminsional form of visual expression. Am I there yet? I don't think so. The last few days have been busy. Out of town guests and other things have kept me from my art. There are paintings to ship and other art related chores. That is non-painting chores. In the piece that is shown, I like to place the know with the unknown. That which is clearly defined with undefined or blurry. The conflict exists. But out of chaos comes...

Studio Listening Matter

• Hank Williams
• The Ink Spots
• Billie Holliday
• Frank Sinatra
• Northern Exposure Music