My first ever painting on a canvas with pencil thin coloring pens. Very relaxing to focus on not going outside the lines. 😊 the colors have slightly faded out since 2018 but that gave the whole painting a new dimension. 😊 #art#relaxing#painting
"Colour! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.... Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power."
The writings of a savage
French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin was born #OTD in 1848.
Impressionistic seascape in soothing, cheerful colors. Squint a bit and see if you can imagine the ocean on a warm day. Waves are rolling in, mountains anchor the horizon line, and a small island anchors the right side.
Getting back to nature, there are two autumn trees, a welcoming campfire that not only offers a seat by the fire but it invites you to follow the light that leads to the sun setting over the cityscape far off in the distance.
First place in Best Alcohol Ink Painting contest! Blown yellow flowers on black. Yellow represents warmth, cheerfulness & increased mental activity. Orange represents happiness, creativity & success. A winning combination.
My region changes seasons exactly 3 weeks before each equinox/solstice. It's uncanny. So summer started with a bang this week and now the race is to clean up the mess left by spring before all these seeds and young creatures and sprawling vines push us off the farm. The purgative, minimalizing mood has me spending time with linocuts and Hard-Edge lately. There's a comfort in the goal of clarity achieved, even long ago and far away.
It's been one of the hardest years of my life, but I cling to the idea that how far we will go we cannot yet imagine. It may not be much farther, or it might be like the already-verging-middle-age Mark Rothko here, staring at the interlocking grids of an underground structure and finding them strangely compelling, reason enough to go on experimenting... taking a few blind steps that will suddenly result in the unimaginable.
At the end of 2008 I decided to leave the two illustration agencies I was signed up to. I wanted a change of pace & I knew the next artwork I created needed to be a career milestone. Enter Leviathan...
Take yourself back to 1934 and imagine what a clean new world they were building. We take it for granted now, and have some perspective on the more unfortunate side effects too, but we stand on their shoulders for our vision. I'm amazed at the break achieved by this whole generation, born to bloomers and carriages and then creating space-age minimalism, scraping the world down to its essence. Also, he was married to Barbara Hepworth for a time!