Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Acrylic, pen, collage on sketchbook paper
How many fingers wag at you when you start to paint?
Do they egg you on with “Go ahead and TRY”. .. (the T word, the you’ll never quite succeed word)
Or remind you of recent rejections by art jurors. . .
Or do they guilt-trip you about more useful things to [...]
Posted in Animals, Nature Abstractions, Paintings on May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Acrylic and collage on paper, 7″ X 11″
I’m a Pisces. Can you tell? Remind you of those fish swimming in opposite directions? After a while it creates a whirlpool, which is what generally happens when I really get going on my creative work. (Although sometimes it’s more of a rip tide) [...]
Posted in Animals, Nature Abstractions, Paintings on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Watercolor and charcoal on paper, 11″ X 7″
The birds ate through two pounds of birdseed in one day. There have been massive avian assemblies around the apple tree birdfeeder. Each time I come out the front door a loud flapping of wings and frantic exodus ensues, and then i can look up at [...]
Posted in Figurative Abstracts, Nature Abstractions, Paintings on May 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Acrylic on paper, 7″ X 11″
Is this non-objective art? That was the exercise in the workshop (this one was done with the same instructions as my last post titled “Fantascape #11″. Actually I did this painting first, right before the Fantascape. Once again the design was found using a cropping tool on [...]
Posted in Fantascapes, Nature Abstractions, Paintings on May 25, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Acrylic and collage on paper, 11″X7″
I just got back from a 3 day workshop with Donna Watson and an exploration of finding a personally expressive style (and then trying to be consistent with it). Needless to say if you’ve been visiting here on a regular basis, consistency is not my forte. However I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2008 | 7 Comments »
(a portion of) a water media painting (collage, acrylic, cassein) on illustration board
Just a peek at a painting which is still in process (the finishing is always the hardest!) Do you know those dulcet tones of a choir of contented hens? Mine have settled down again now that Nimbus has stopped brooding. [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Steady now. . .eye on the goal. . .but wait. . .it shifts. . .earthquake, typhoon, famine, war, sky below, ground above, feet on the moon, head in the ground, still watching, the goalposts moving, rearranging, far into the long night and day. Steady now.
It’s not easy living in this world, trying to grasp [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on May 17, 2008 | No Comments »
What happened to our lovely spring weather? We’ve been getting a serious roasting here in the San Francisco Bay area, so when I ran into this old sketch of my son from summers gone by, well I had to share it. Don’t worry, it’s a non-alcoholic Marguerita, and after all, the real appeal [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Ink, acrylic, collage on paper
one day i travel on trade winds to far continents,
the next i shrink pea sized examining with fascination my teeny tiny footprint
A too-hot day and the electricity went off for an hour and shrunk me to pea size, so I took a nap. Some days the world stretches out [...]
Posted in Fantascapes, Nature Abstractions, Paintings on May 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Acrylic, charcoal on paper, 11 X 15″
What mountains are these? What temple? What lake? What rock obelisk standing sentry? Go there and find out for yourself, and then let me know.
And then visit Miki’s fantascape #16.
