New Series

Circles #2

I am begining to believe that it is totaly impossable for me to work on only one thing at a time.

A new seriese is emerging from the pool of energy that is me.

To me these seems a bit more uplifting, but it is early in their development. Cricles #2 began as two touching hands and a solar like ring around them. It is developing in to two hands emerging from a spherical egg which is held by two unrelated hands. The ray of light energy (still too yellow orange) that is also emerging out from the egg then wraps around the central element to then blend to the bottom and cradel the scene.

The Red Sphere in the background has not totaly disclosed its pupose. This 24"x24" oil on wood panel is in the underpainting stage now. Once the design has been worked out Thicker oils will be applied.

I have a more mystical feeling about this one. The difficulty lies in wanting to have bright, bold, vivid color without creating an overwelming energy force. How to get vivid color while keeping a soft easy feeling is showing itself as my challenge.

AS with most of what I create, the final name for these new paintings will be determined at their completion. For now, they get series numbers in order of their original emergence.

Circles #1

This is a watercolor that began as a memeber of the MONOCHROMES series but the birth of the green gave it a new destiny.

Here figures, or parts of them, are stretching to support various spheres.

It does seem that my creations often consist of circles and figures.

What can I say?... They're fun!

Works in Progress

This is the newest painting to be in progress. This one, like most, started with a few quick stroke of paint and then a break. A second look as to what could emerge from it. It is still early in its life yet. However, the charactoristic circles and figures are beginning to appear. I think this one is in the underpainting state. The seed's been planted, so to say. Now I'm not all together sure how it will grow. A variation from the last fiew, this painting has its origins in water color and pensil, rather than oil pastel and oil paint.

Manipulated Monochromes

It's amazing what Photoshop has allowed the artist to do in creating new images from original works. This began as "Purple" then I added various filters to the original painting. From there it's all just select, copy invert, rotate and place. Presto, a new image. Maybe I'll call this "Purple Reflections."
Poster edges and plastic wrap are the two filters used here. After creating new layers to apply the filters, the layers were merged and then copied and transformed. This type of Kalidascope image can be created with any image that has exterior posative and negative spaces. It is the play on posative and negative spaces that gives the image its power.

Purple In Progress

"Purple" is still in progress. I am not yet satisfied with its values and textures. In the photograph it appears more harsh than as I see it in the studio. Seeing the painting on the screen helps me to reevaluate my intentions for the work. I think as artists we often can get so sucked in to what we are doing that we loose site of the total composition. I began this one, as with the other monocromes, with a few lines using the pure color. From there, each line becomes its own form and grows. Then each form has to find where it fits in, around, and through the others.

While I have become entranced with the monochome series, I am still wooking on Evolution of Herstory, some photorestoration and other digital projects. What can I say???? That's what drives me.

Monochroms Live On

Thank you Martin Luther King Jr. for all you did for individual freedoms. You have made it possible for me to create another painting in the monochroms series. This one, for now, is "Yellow" 18x24 Oil on Canvas.

MonoChromes

Here I am working in a monochromatic color scheme with oil on wood panel. I have not yet decided on a title for this one. As it sits in the studio I look at it each day and wait for it to speek it's name. For now, I'll call it "Blue". Its cool blue color gently blends from dark to light and back to dark again. With lines flowing in a circular fashion there are many ways of interpreting its meaning. Depending on the state of mind when viewing it can conjour up thoughts of things from the female reproductive organs to organic patterns. This abstract work is the first in a series of monochromatic works.

I'll call this one "Green" for now. It too is an oil but on canvas. This abstraction of swirling green evolves from its simple primary yellow and blue color to its more complex secondary green color. The central circular formation serves as a base, or seperator, of the two legs. A torsoless figure (meaning you can only see the legs) sits on a ball; or is it an egg emerging from between the two legs?

This painting, like "Blue", is but a piece a greater puzzell. Each panel I create must be able to stand on its own, but fit into a larger design. We'll see how they all emerge.





Ok, so this one is not exactly monochromatic. These colors are the same from "Evolution of Herstory" Again with the swirling, spiral of color evolving from one to the next and back again. The warm colors are full of heated energy. Blue and Green are much calmer paintings than this one which for now I will call "Funnel" All these heated colors funneling into what? The next painting in the series. Time to go paint!

Finished pieces

Evolution of Herstory Acrylic and Latex on Cotton, 6ftx8ft 2006-07
While this painting was "done" by the show opening dat I still can not say that I think it is really complete.





The day finally arrived when I could say, "Ok, they're done.... well sort of. Getting a date for exhibiting my paintings and Photography forced me to finish what I started. I have found in life that things get done faster when there is a dead line. The following are images of my studio now with the paintings in their resting places. Here they will stay now that the exhibition is closed until one fine day when someone decides they just have to be a collertor of great contemporary art. That is, someone other than me.


Going down the stars to the studio one would find Some og my photography and painting.

The painting on the far right was not created by me. Rather it was created by a former studnet of mine, Jared Crane. Don't be afraid of the tree lady in teh corner. Even with her belt of bullets, she's practically harmless. My son has lent me Michaelangelo for inspiration and guidance in my creative journies. The painting on the close left is "Dancing Through Life" and nect to it is "Trinatys Myth"

Looking from the sitting area into my painting studio. When I'm not painting in this space I am setting up the portable studio and photographing.

The purpose of the cabinet for the computer was so I could close it up when not in use. It never seems to get closed.

Evolution of Herstory

Evolution of Herstory

The painting has finaly made it to exhibition at Ty & Co Espresso. More input on it later no time now. IT will be on display from 11/10 -11/18 2006

Parts and Pieces

This painting is developing a life of its own. Figures are emerging and faces are coming out of hiding.

If eyes are the portal to the soul then that explains why eyes are so difficult to paint. It is intentional that there is, and only will be, one set of eyes looking out from this painting at the viewer. All otheres are looking up, down or off somewhere else. Every being here is reaching, stretching, searching for something. What is that something?
I am drawn to the energy of the red, orange and Crimson. It is not an angy red, or a bleeding red. It is a hot, energy filled fire that burns in all of us. It is the burn of the search. The quest to stretch oneself to find the boundaries and to reach out of the safety net that is the box that binds us.

Torture of the Title

After working on a painting for a while there comes a point when a title will help direct the completion. The Problem then is realizing a title that will not adversly effect or direct the evolution of the artwork, yet will capture the essance of its meaning.

A Title can ruin an artwork, but so can the lack of one. WE all need direction. The title I give serves my direction. What about the viewer's direction? What's to say that my direction is the only direction. IF we all are individuals with different backgrounds and experiences, then we all bring somthing different to we encounter. It is only with expressing the individual interpretations of any experience that we truely understand our own.

I'm thinking of calling the above paintings "life"

I can not decide on this one. I think it still needs more paint befor it has earned a title.