Changes and Additions

Working on this one today I decided I didn't like the bursts at the end of the blue tube. Now the tube has a mouth so to speak. Looking at it on the screen it appears that not much has changes in a day. In the hours my children granted me to paint more layers of paint were applied to three paintings. It's amazing how much time and paint can be applied and yet the appearance seems insignificant. In a world of drive through dinner and instant messaging, the art of layering paint and the appreciation of the time invested is often undervalued

She Comes From Water grew a few more connections. Still many details to work out. I'm not so good at the little details sometimes.

PLAYTIME

What to do with the extra paint before you change up the pallet?

You close your eyes and put on on some good music, dance a bit and see what happens.

This oil on board is a mix of Bio Ritmo www.bioritmo.com, , Pedro Almodovar, BB King, CCR, Carrie Underwood, Grateful Dead, and the radio station k95.

So this yet to be titled work will grow along with the others this summer.

She comes from water

The more I work at this one the more she grows beyond the original sketch made in my book. This painting has become more about composition now as I continue its construction.

All the main elements are present and now it's about balance and details. The details of edges, balanced parts, separation of what is to be truly abstracted, and what has to be realistic. Where is the light coming from? Does it have to be coming from only one location? How many figures can I include in this one solid creature? How many faces will be revealed? How many ghosts will be seen in the background? Is there movement, contrast, variety, unity, rhythm and of course, is there balance?

This "figure" rises from water and is tied to it.

[Maybe it's not that it's tied but more nourished by the water] All the while she is inside of an egg (or is that an orange water droplet) that floats in a water world.

As I zoom in on details I can not help but continue to think on the purpose and symbolism in this work. Through it all I can not overlook the positive energy I have in painting it. The colors in my head radiate brighter and with greater intensity than I can paint. Maybe I should Photoshop it?

Chakra Centers Evolve

Energy Centers in the body. The figures from different viewpoints are inside an egg on a blue background. The figure is wading in a puddle of water and land. This work in progress is 22"x30" oil on watercolor paper

This painting I started today originated, like many ideas from the little drawing book I try to always have with me.

This painting includes symbolic colors representing both the energy points (chakras), and the color of life, creativity, nurishment, calm,; blue.

Purple is royalty, majesty, support, wisdom and comfort.

The chakra colors of red for the base, orange for the sacral, yellow for the solar plexus, green for the heat, blue fo rhe throat, indigo for the head and violewt white for the crown are placed as cirles of color.

We'll see how this one developes. Must sleep now.

Summer Days..... Digital Nights

When the days call for adventure out of studio and exploring with the family my camera is my tool and my computer turns into my easel. Fishing was the original purpose of our walk. While we didn't catch any fish a few images were captured.

Of course, with as quickly as my two move, getting THE shot on the card is not always easy. Thankfully there is Photoshop.

Here are a few images in various stages of manipulation.

These 2 are the original shots I combined to make the new one.

Thanks to layers of various transparency, and the clone and patch tools among others this new composition took shape.

Then color was another property to be varied.

I like this one the best of all the variations.

Summer Painting Season HAS Begun

Summer is the time of new creations!

The paintings that were begun and put on hold during late winter, early spring are now getting their due attention. Two paintings that I started months ago and I have been staring at each time I walked through the studio to get very important things other than my brush. Important things like the laundry, or my son's shoes have ways of overshadowing creative outlets. But good news is..... Summer's here, school is out, kids are busy and playing and Mommy gets to paint! Happy Days are here again!

The above painting is an oil on board with watercolor under painting. This is the last in the monochromatic series. All proceeding paintings were keeping with just variation of a line and shape. This one incorporates the figure and then changes its flow. It seems sometimes that when the figure is introduced to a composition a certain level of tension is automatically created. AS with most my paintings, it has no title yet. It has not revealed itself to me yet. Yet.

More work to be done.

These hands hold the spherical egg which has two hands emerging from it. Entwined in rings of light, are spheres of energy. This oil painting on wood is still in progress. More work on the hands and dimensionality of the rings.

NEW CREATION!!! While the same subject/style as many of my previous works, this paintings incorporates a new media. All color is applied on clear velum. All black figurative lines are developed on watercolor paper with charcoal.

At this point I am envisioning a forest with figures emerging from many natural forms all in a cool color scheme.

LAYERS! OMG! It's photoshop with oil and more time.

This New Kid on the Block is unlike anything I have created before. Cartoon like with simple color and black lines.

This began as a drawing on board then is now underway as an oil on board. This time I inked lines firs and concreted the design. In my mind. This is a commentary on our dependence the screen. Dependant to the point of self crippling degeneration. Three different people have melted to only heads, deformed now as they may be. These heads, so lazy as to have melted away their legs, are being pushed in a shoe fitted with a wheel. Because everyone else has fallen to the lazy, the shoe is control ed by remote using the antennas on top.

The background consists of various roads, bridges and screens projecting meaningless mind clutter and a imaginary creature or two.

This one just makes me giggle! Maybe Mind Mush would be a good title?

So I have much work to do. What a great way to spend summer "vacation".