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Archive for April, 2009

What is Real?

Posted in creative process, painting process, photography on April 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The Ivy League
“A good artist can make you forget the medium, like a magician not showing the wires.”
- Robert Levers
When I show my photography I occasionally get the comment – “that looks like a painting”. Or sometimes a photographer will tell me that when they print their image on watercolor paper, it looks “painterly”.
What do [...]

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The Creative Photograph

Posted in creative process, photography on April 25, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Golden Gate Bridge from Marina
“There’s only one rule in photography – never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.”
- Freeman Patterson
As promised, I will post some photography for awhile. In my experience, most people really like on medium or the other but rarely both. So I hope I will not alienate any loyal followers out [...]

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Inside and Outside

Posted in abstract painting, acrylics on April 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I thought I’d share a small view of our surroundings – it’s such a beautiful time of year. I spent most of the weekend gardening – next weekend I’ll definitely use sunscreen while I put in the vegetables!
This panoramic shot is the view from the back of our house – we have windows all along [...]

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Curioser and curioser…

Posted in Aesthetics, abstract painting, acrylics, creative process, painting process on April 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Unraveling, 15 x 15″ Acrylic on Illustration Board
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
- Albert Einstein
I suspect that while we can find all degrees of talent among great beings or great actions, at the heart of each of them is this same passionate curiosity. It’s certainly at the root of all great [...]

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Inner Moonlight

Posted in abstract painting, acrylics, creative process, painting process on April 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Whorlds, 15 x 15″ Acrylic on Illustration Board
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”
-Allen Ginsberg
I love the thought of our “inner moonlight” – usually we think of a brighter, sunnier source of illumination for our creativity. But the cool and uniquely intimate way in which moonlight reveals is a nice counterpoint to contemplate. Perhaps [...]

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Dogs and Cats

Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Escape, 10 x 10″ Acrylic and Spackle on Ilustration Board
“In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.”
- Dereke Bruce
Praise and blame – occurrences in our daily lives that are certainly not limited only to artists. But as [...]

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