Four New Paintings in my Artist Journal
I’ve been working a lot in my artist journal, which is a great place for me to process stuff.
Artist Journals
A Page in My Artist Journal (Process Photos of See No Evil)
The series of images below gives you a good idea how non-objective work evolves.
Expressive Sketchbooks (Book Review and Helen Wells Featured Artist)
I love British artist Helen Wells, and I think you may too.
Three New Non-Objective Abstractions in my Artist Journal
This kind of work adds to my understanding of how materials influence a piece’s outcome, as well as generates new ideas of how to use them in future work.
Two New Small Mixed Media Paintings
My art goals for the next while are to work smaller and try all sorts of new things.
Susan Newbold: Featured Artist (Her New Show and New Book)
I particularly love her sea scapes and organic shapes.
Three New Pointillist Paintings in Gouache
I’ve been playing with layers and layers of dots. Here are my most recent pointillist gouaches.
Doodles in my Artist Journal
I love the release of doodling in my artist journal, where the outcome is a surprise and the path contemplative.
Recent Artist Journal Pages (now with Quotes)
In this post you can see my pages since the new year–all part of my processing that goes into work I care more about.
Four Small Works from January
If you are too busy to paint, keep painting, just go smaller. Here are some recent examples of that from this month.
Recent Doodles in my Artist Journal
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.
Four New Doodles in My Artist’s Journal
When I’m traveling or busy, keeping my hand at art making in my artist journal keeps me fresh and curbs somewhat the desperate urges to paint full blown paintings. It gives me a chance to try out compositional ideas and color combinations when there is very little at stake.
Five Recent Pages from my Artist’s Journal
Working in an artist’s journal when I am too busy to paint larger full concept works remains an important part of my process.
Recent Non-Objective Work in my Artist’s Journal
I enjoy my artist’s journal as a place to try out ideas and techniques. Here is what I’ve done in there recently.
Recent Artist Journal Pages
My artist’s journal is a place to catch a quick idea, or try out ideas before investing time in paintings. Often it is simply a contemplative end in itself…