Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Things are beginning to sprout, the air is milder, the light more diffused, the birds with their feathers and song are returning, and soon there will be peepers. How to capture all this joy and hope and relief and refreshment and rebirth?
I’m teaching a two day workshop for the Connecticut Pastel Society titled Adventures in Abstraction in Southington, Connecticut on April 13th and 14th.
We’ve all experienced this. We are buzzing along just fine, and then just before a fork in the road, we get all confused and flummoxed about which way to go, and nothing seems clear, and we’ve got to decide, but there so much conflicting stuff going on, and… That’s what I painted in this new abstract conceptualist piece called Conundrum.
I helped hang this beautiful Connecticut Pastel Society Show last week, and unfortunately missed the opening on Saturday due to it being snowed out. Fortunately, however, I got these photos while we hung the show!
My painting July, shown above, is in a show “Blue,” put on by the Guilford Arts League, at the Guilford library, on the Guilford green in Connecticut.
Since “people of color” is a preferred reference, I opted for a range of color, from muted to more intense, to represent diversity instead of choosing to merely depict a range of skin tone.
Sometimes when I listen to stuff I doodle, mostly to keep my hands busy. My artist’s journal is a great place to do this. It is also a wonderful way to try out compositional ideas. Here are four such recent explorations done low tech in either Posca pen, Pitt pens, or permanent markers.
Continuing in the mark making series, I will now explore collage as elements of mark making.
For my third in this mark making series I am going to try to create unique marks with handmade brushes.
My black and white painting, titled Isn’t it a Beautiful Day, shown above, is in the Madison Art Society show at the Clinton Library until the end of this month.
On a really frigid day last week I felt compelled to paint spring. This is the resulting abstract landscape, which I aptly titled Field of Dreams.
As a sequel to my window into some of my mark making explorations, I now explored drips, drops, and spatter, and am letting you look over my shoulder
This painting is another in my newer series of unseen bodily mysteries objectified.
Look over my shoulder as I start my process of honing my art skills this year with these mark making assignments for myself, done in acrylic.
The idea here is that I needed an example of more provocative abstract work in my powerpoint on abstraction.
Here are six new pieces of sgraffito pottery that are out of the kiln: two round luncheon plates made on the wheel, three square dinner salad plates, and a small square nut bowl.
In this post, you can see some of my favorite work done this year, hear of the progress made and opportunities enjoyed, as well as my art goals for the coming year.