"Modify" painting # 48. 5-28-2014

"Modify" painting # 48. I think there is an interesting narrative pooling up. Walking up to the easel all the time either for teaching art, creating art, and or developing art has been really freeing. Over all even though I see tons of room to grow and evolve I am becoming internally satisfied with the process. I like the little tweeks or blips along the way. An odd bit of world here or there peaking through. Over all I think my personal filter of existence is beginning to show. The unique and singular way I v"see" the world. My pace is picking back up again as I have resolved the blockages slowing it down. Its like my creative pace car has finished the pit stop and I have resumed before the checker flag goes down. I am approaching 50 paintings and thats a great thing! So much creative soup bubbling up. Not bad for  a couple months worth of work. I like this last piece its a little funny, a little odd, and a little dark. Kinda like life!

"Event" painting #47 5-27-2014

"Event" painting #47 Its been an eventful week lots of good changes. The studio has been bussing with content creation. I have made some serious headway for Cinnamon Cooney's Hart Party . New tutorials in the can and now come the stare down at am AV guy who is also my Husband to edit this stuff so we can post it. Lots of personal experimentation for me personally in my own art. Some of it really frustration and some of it like a breeze off a mountain. This painting has been one I have kicked around in my little can for a while. I am and always will be a lover of snails. They just look like fairies ride them as soon as I am not looking. My MCM home has so many owls and mushrooms but as of yet I have not gotten fun with the fungus. I may revisit this again there is more I want to look at here and I am still getting my sense of some of these new materials. I have been posting my projects lots of places as you know. I just added Craftsy into the mix.

"Sage" 5-22-2014 daily painting challenge #46

"Sage" 5-22-2014 daily painting challenge #46. I am blessed today as pressure is melting away and things I have been focusing are manifesting. This is a new day compared to yesterday in every way including the literal. I can and I will are the feelings of the day. It's always a challenge to paint animals that are oddly shaped or arranged. Ones that are unexpected in some way. However the pay off can be worth it. How things are and how they feel when that are put on canvas is the ether of art. just because it reads well as a photograph does not mean It will read well as a painting no matter how skilled a draftsmen the artist is. So you have to get a sense of what will translate and what will be lost in translation. Because I am a translator as much as anything else. Taking the poetry that the divine composes and putting in a language that others can understand. No small task when you think about it. We creative types tune into that divine radio broadcast and try to share it with others through music, art, the written word, and countless other little creative efforts. I have seem some profound scrapbook pages in my time. Ahhhh where is my babel fish muse and my towel there is so much to see and do!

"Perscicacious" 5-20-2014 #45

"Perspicacious" 5-20-2014 #45
Wisdom is something you get best from having boots on the ground or in this case brushes in the water. This daily painting goal like all life goals has hit a speed bump. Between illness, my husbands travel schedule, and the magical ever growing pile of laundry daily painting has fallen down. However even though its not going as smoothly as in the beginning and even though I am now the complicated nature is more time consuming then a painting sketch I keep going. Maybe I paint everyday but, it's not done on one day. I am using a new ground to help push some of my watery effects further. I am accepting the little bobbles coming my way. I mean husbands got to work and I like having the lights on. I have to work too...back to the lights on. So back to the drawing or the white board and more planning for the day. There are meetings to see what we can get done if anything and I paint where I can and when I can. I feel as if I am in a mad three ring circus and I am sitting on a unicycle atop a wire  teacups balanced on my head juggling a never ending litany of things to do. I think only Dr Suess could illustrate me. Which gets me to this painting and all its insight. I wonder if when I explain the circumstances in my life if the viewer can see how they impact the art. Influence its nature.

"Emerald" 5-16-2014 painting challenge #44

"Emerald" 5-16-2014 painting challenge #44 So this is the last of the Heavy Bodied paints being abused in ways the Golden, Liquitex, and Matisse web pages all state very clearly they are not deigned for. Today I was pouring through the manufacturing stats getting ready to trip into the world of absorbent grounds. I hope its right I have a gallon of it. The last couple of paintings have been romanic and sweet after the darker turn I did. I know have fluids and flows all ready to go. Prepped pieces dryng for the next couple of days and I realize whatever I thought I was doing in my daily paint has become something else. Daily painters work small with a fantastic economy of brushstrokes.....clearly not happening here. However I am now someplace I refuse to back out of. I am dug in and this is the ground I will be setting up shop in. I have been thinking about Brian Dispain lately and his odd little bit of created world he works out. Imagining what got him there. I a thinking how do we get anywhere in art to build a place that the creator and the viewer can fall into. Thinking about Dune and how I always think of the Gom Jabar and when it is scary I say the mantra.....( You know it)Then I sip my water imagine its from my Fremen suit and I am in the endless desert that is the center of the universe. Its totally awesome that all that daydreaming I got punished for as a child has turned into a super power. I live in a rich inner world and some of it leaks out on my canvas. How awesome is that?

"Summer" 5-15-2014 daily painting challenge #43

"Summer" 5-15-2014 daily painting challenge #43 The summer wind has started to blow. I see the richer colors coming into view. I am treading water keeping up on my daily painting. Even posting is behind. But, weirdly I am not behind al all. I am in a creative renaissance and thats a great place to be. I have some project management to do to keep my eye on all the balls I am juggling. I did update today my art studio and we are all full of Golden Flow and Inks. Plus I have a crazy tub of Absorbent ground. Thats going to give me some crazy options. I spent the day with a artists, family, and friends. I got some spiritual gems today to ponder and thats always a blessing. I saw my mom! Been missing her a ton. My projects are coming to fruition across the board and its all just perfect. Thats summer around here for sure. Where everything is sunny, beautiful, and sweet. Summer is going to be epic! I think these are being a little Jane Austin but that works for me. Team Knightly!

"Raw" 5-10-2014 daily painting #41

"Raw" 5-10-2014 daily painting #41. I like playing with elements of the story. What glimpse gives what clue or insight to the meaning. They keyhole into the work. That way the viewer is pulled into the story. This last grouping I did over the weekend a little darker than I normally go. What I like is the darkness is balanced with humor and strength. I mean really deep angst is for the young. Those of us who have lived a bit know your scars are trophies not easily come by. Not airbrushed out of the picture by shiny computer techs. They are the keyholes that pull people in around us. Makes a laugh richer and a kindness sweeter. I am glad this is showing up in the work when I ask it too.

"Solaris" 5-9-2014 daily painting challenge #40

"Solaris" 5-9-2014 daily painting challenge #40 Celebrating today and enjoying this new turn. There were some changes. This pieces is acrylic on paper and that posed some benefits and challenges. Definitely celebrating spring into the first bloom of summer. The weather is warming up and I am warming up. This has been like invisible armor for me. A shield of I love what I am doing and how I am doing it. Everywhere I go I am just all aglow and smiling. Had a busy day at the beginning and was not sure  I would even get to paint. However a moment opened up and in came the art. Everything is music. I am thinking though about designation studios. What would that be like. I saw one featured by a Canadian artist and admired it so much. Something with glass and light and full of love! However my current studio is warm and full of things that make me smile!

" Elation" 5-8-2014 daily painting challenge #39.

" Elation" 5-8-2014 daily painting challenge #39. This is it! What I have been rummaging around for inside my happy little soul. This right here. I can hear this, feel this, and I can exude this. When I finished this I jumped up and down. I cheered wildly whooping. There was even a pretty energetic victory dance. Than I sat quietly and admired it for a while. Thus this pieces name. I have no long intense connected story to the eagle outside the one I think all americans grew up with. However from this day forward when I look at this piece I will connected to this eagle. This was the day my chains fell, my mortal coil dropped, and I stepping into the chariot of ascension! The goal is no longer a distant hope it is am outcome that is absolute. Voice, voice, voice! Clear as a bell and singing out into the reaches of the universe reclaimed I have found VOICE! Cue music! Thank you Thank you thank you! Oh happy day!
These moments of win are important in life! I am going to pop a bottle of Champaign tonight and celebrate this. I have people in my life that forget or decline the invitation to the win party and I find that so sad. to be seated in celebration is the spirit of creation. There is simply not enough importance put into joy these days. The sacred nature of it is lost in the minutia of life. Today though I accept my invitation and will dress up for the occasion. I am going to glow and gleam right in public.

"Frenchy" 5-6-2014 daily painting challenge #38.

"Frenchy" 5-6-2014 daily painting challenge #38. Linda Fleming Cooneybeloved first love of her two Papillon dogs. It has been fun painting these two cuties but it is also amazing to approach it as art. I love pushing my paint to its limits but I feel it may be time to upgrade the tool sets. I am thinking of making a Golden Artist Colors run for some of their mediums and Flow paints. I may even get a set of inks. I am starting to worry how far I can go and keep the painting stable. Right now I am repurposing old canvas's and hitting the Gesso trail. I think their may be merit in washes on an Unfinished Canvas. The Golden Art rep is coming by at a VAA event and I will be there with bells on soaking it all in. The truth being this is a real Ninja trick to do this style once once a day. I am going to hang in though and I imagine the rewards to my skills will be hard to measure. However I look forward to leaving some of the canvas white. I may even look at doing some paper. Not a fan of my home framing though... just another crazy task in the list. I will be posting some of the techniques in a lesson just because I want to share the fun. Below I am throwing in the details so you can get a closer look at whats afoot! or A paw. Todays will be a claw LOL.

"Gigi" 5-5-2014 daily painting challenge #37.

"Gigi" 5-5-2014 daily painting challenge #37. I have been sidelined by illness and thats been super frustrating. However I must keep in mind that my daily painting practice is not a stunt but a journey. Were it a stunt the trick would be to paint no matter what everyday but as a practice I also must allow for things like Holidays and Illness. So here I am back still working on the painterly realism and Intentism. I feel like I am inching closer and closer to a greater moment in the painting. My tools are getting sharper and though things may seem looser. I now have incredible control over the things that seem the most accidental of the work. It is my goal to walk the find line of duality

Sick break

Break for sick was pretty rough but I LIVED to paint again

"Meeting" 5-1-2014 daily painting #36

"Meeting" 5-1-2014 daily painting #36 I have been thinking about meetings today. How lucky and blessed I am in the people I get to meet. Online and in real life I have had an incredible group of BE-ings come into my life. If you know me and consider us friends consider this... I am blessed with people who are talented, smart, funny, kind, and present. My friends are the kind of people who add to a room! I don't really know subtractors or those who devalue the world. The people I have been blessed to know are all actively trying to BE the change they want to see in the world. They are makers, thinkers, and creators. I may not always get to see everyone I adore all the time. Living a life is a messy business and it can make travel impossible. Car travel, plane travel, and space travel are just problematic these days. Something I am working on. I am grateful for Facebook and its connection cousins so that I can stay in touch with friends new and old. This paintings is about that feeling when friends who are additive meet up. Its about likes, favs, and shares. Thank you all for sharing your very special meaningful lives with me.

"Sensationalistic" 4-30-2014 daily painting #35

"Sensationalistic" 4-30-2014 daily painting #35 There are 6 senses of yellow. I feel like I know yellow best when its next to purple. swirl a little orange in, and then my eyes feel full. Painting jelly fish is one of those things that makes you really look at textures and tones. That is their whole world as they float passively along in the oceans womb. They have texture. There have been many blooms of jelly fish lately. Conditions are changing for them. On land they do not die they evaporate. This strikes me to be transcendental. They are of the sea, made of sea. They belong perfectly where they live. Still loving pushing the limits of the paints and mediums. ITS NOT practical for a daily paint. Requires strategy and tactical drying periods. But I will will leave practical thing to practical people and just keep on being frivolous.

"Parade" 4-29-2014 daily painting #34!

"Parade" 4-29-2014 daily painting #34! Now this is something! It was super intense to do but crazy exciting! I love these little piglets. I imagine where they are going to. I think about how good the warm sun feels on their backs. I am getting confident in this method of expressive painting. Further when its possible I will be able to do this on incredible large stretchers. Its a bee that is buzzing in my bonnet for sure. If this is what is going on just a month in I am starting to look forward to the view of 11 months from now. I am already putting the show together in my mind. The stacks of Canvass's are getting to be a little silly around here. It is really going to be something tactical to hold on to this work and show it at once. I may do a pre-sale through a crowd source a little later on. I am pondering that. It would make it possible to move to a deep edge canvas and keep up on the paint demands. It is interesting how the business of the studio and the art of the studio fit together. I feel like screaming rock and roll which no one even does any more. This is pure joy! So Enjoy my little piglet parade!

"Ballroom" 4-28-2014 daily painting challenge #33

"Ballroom" 4-28-2014 daily painting challenge #33 So I am working out a thought here or rather a chain of thoughts. This was a really physically and mentally demanding piece. Horses have a place in their herd. When they are running if they get out of place the smooth thunder turns to squeals and kicks. Sometimes when your running there is chaos and conflict. However in art there is beauty in that conflict. It has action and drama. There is no beauty in an uneventful life. I don't like the bumps like everyone else but with a little perspective often what hurt was exactly what was needed.

"Transparent" 2-26-2014 daily painting #32

"Transparent" 2-26-2014 daily painting #32 I was lucky enough to learn about the VAA through friendship. Because of that I was able to go to the first Pop Up show in Houston hosted by the VAA at the Next wall Gallery. We had great weather but a lot of wind. The paper artists deserve an extra award! I had one large painting I really planned but I brought a extra canvas just in case I had time to do more work. I was so lucky I did! I got to have a bit of fun and I played! Primaries are not a thing I normally explore however inspired by my brave peers painting outside. I decided to go for it. It was incredibly fun. One of my favorite people on earth who I admire so deeply put a red dot on this. I have received so much generosity of spirit from him. Early on he gave me a needed push to take my talent and see where it might go. Love you so much Dominick Daunno. You are pure like primaries!

"Under" 4-26-2014 daily painting #31

"Under" 4-26-2014 daily painting #31 A critical component of art I have come to realize is community. Matt Adams has been a long time friend of mine but even more he has become of friend to the arts. We used to have photo days running around taking pictures and talking about being creative. I remember when Matt decided to take the leap and go full time as an artist. Over the years work, life, and residency in other countries happened. Now here I am starting out on my own Art Journey and look who reached out to give me a hand and help me find my voice. Matt! With him he brings this amazing group of new, talented, and generous of spirit the members of the VAA. On top of that my friends and family came out and brought a rain of love and encouragement. Linda Fleming Cooney spent hours with me. She provided a ton of love, french Cafe music, and captured the Terry Crump painting! So begins.... the war of the Squirrel which I know with be more fun because of her! My friend Kevin Walsh drove out from AUSTIN! Matts family had some amazing words for me I will be tucking away in my heart! My Husband watched the kids. Finally Mike Smith came out with cool company and volunteered. Yes he was injured in the line of duty. Art tags are super Dangerous. But he quietly and supportive bought this piece because he liked it! Whats the point of all of this? Well in this painting there is a lone horse having a play! The whole time I am making this though I am not alone. I have a herd, a community. a family and that is giving me a chance to play and grow!

"Depth" 4-25-2014 daily painting #30

"Depth" 4-25-2014 daily painting #30 Thats right fold 30 paintings in 30 days. There are things percolating and bubbling up all through my mind right now. Art gives and art grows. It see's things in a way that changes the viewpoint around it. I am finding all kinds of things out about myself. This painting for what I need and where I want to grow has been so exciting. I love this War Ponies eye. Art is what ever fills your soul up. Do you see?

"Liquid" 4-24-2014 daily painting #29

"Liquid" 4-24-2014 daily painting #29 So I ended up liking the denim more than the copper patina for this. I used several intense Acrylic techniques on this piece. The idea was to connect to the feeling of the wild horses fighting over territory. Strength and freedom. Also for me a feeling of loss as the wild horse is disappearing from the west. Kids no longer connect to the spirit of the west. The romance of cowboys and wild mustangs. The freedom of the trail through and open range. My children will never know this. I fell in love with art during The Southwest movement. The first Artist I ever collected was RC Gormen. The second Pena. I agonized over Bev Doolittle and Southwest art magazine. The world of the great Georgia O'keeffe. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" Yeats

"Equilibrium" 4-23-2014 daily painting # 28

"Equilibrium" 4-23-2014 daily painting # 28. This is a full circle piece. If you have been following the daily painting you can see how one thought led to another thought and landed here today. If you have followed me a number of years you know how really significant this actually is. My relationship to the horse is no minor thing. It speaks literally to my soul and to me becoming an artist. I was one of those girls I galloped instead of running. I whinnied to say hello. I ate oats and bathed in troughs. I wore english riding boots all day every day. I am pretty sure I smelled like a mix of alfalfa, horse and barn. I drew horses EVERYDAY. From every angle. I poured over Walter Foster art books, Vavra books, and Equine anatomy books. No image for years was left untouched by a hoof or a main. This painting is the sum of a significant amount of pent up little girl horse dreams. It was born in volumes of black stallion books. When I finished it a sobbed. Which weirded out the kids a lot. The kids do not know the girl with the paint Pony named Whiskey who road 1000 of miles of horse trails. They do not know pigtails and pockets full of carrots. Whats worse is I had forgotten that real pure intense love. I am so grateful to this painting and process I never would have really found her with out this painting!

"Iceplant" 4-22-2014 daily painting #27.

"Iceplant" 4-22-2014 daily painting #27. Working out a thought I am having for down the road. Just relaxing and letting it be. Hard day to paint yesterday but I did it so Yipeeeee me. I rock

"Perception" daily painting challenge #26

"Perception" daily painting challenge #26 4-21-2014. I felt like it was time to warm up the color pallet a bit. Its a crazy crazy week for me. I am trying on a lot of hats and idea's. My training to become my own Editor for Cinnamon Cooney's Hart Party has been frustratingly slow. Lots of things are taking off in the studio. I am taking in the fact that I have done 26 paintings. This is a long road and maybe an uphill one. People have started to ask me about how long I think I will have idea's for. Thats at least comforting I have no trouble finding something to paint. I do not have a constant cohesive body of work. I am still just wandering along painting what catches my muse. Amuses my muse. However there is some themeing and I see something taking shape around the Lions. I am also seeing how the abstracts are influencing the lions and I like that.

"Being" 4-20-2014 daily painting #25.

"Being" 4-20-2014 daily painting #25. Todays painting was named by Linda Fleming Cooney. Yesterday I had a Sick child so it was my first missed day in my challenge. Tonight I have a critic I am going to with the VAA. Wednesday I have a show at Roof Bar. I have to come up with three pieces out of the rows of stuff I have painted in the back. All the stuff for daily painting 2014 has to be held on too! Then there is the Saturday 720 Pop Up show with the VAA. Its going to be a great first week back in art. Hopefully I will get back to the place where weeks like this are common place. "Love is all you need to be happy"

"Enchanted" 4-18-2014 daily painting #24

"Enchanted" 4-18-2014 daily painting #24 So this is a much different story than I have been telling. It was a challenge to do and work out. I feel though over all this is exactly what I have been needing to get a big bloom in the studio. I have no clue where this odd little adventure will end. I do think though that like the very best adventures it will take me places and show me things I never expected!

"Ensnare" 4-17-2014 daily painting #23

"Ensnare" 4-17-2014 daily painting #23 Yesterday was so crazy. Lots going on and madness around the house. I had started one painting in my lion theme again but recognized first that there would be no way to finish and two the color story was very challenge. The answer channel the energy and problem into this piece. Which turned out to be perfect and productive as the next painting I think shows!

"Luminary" 4-16-2014 daily painting challenge #22.

"Luminary" 4-16-2014 daily painting challenge #22. The definition of Luminary is a person who inspires or influences others. Something I aspire to be with Hart Party. Something I admire in the people and artists around me who ignite my creative fire . Inspiration does not happen in a vacuum. I am effected by events and people around me. I stir up the " Cinnamon story" which is made up of experiences and in that Metaphorical alphabet soup the meaning bubbles up. This piece is my favorite painting in the whole collection so far . It is also one of my favorites in my life. Top five for sure. This is a full circle piece for me. When I was young I entered an abstract lion water color on arches paper to the Dell Mar Fair show. San Diego's version of the Houston Rodeo. It won and sold. I think I was 11 and that was a pivoting moment for me. My art has value. Not kid value... but real value which translated into a fundamental sense of my own worth. I sometimes lament at selling that piece. I have no pictures which is sad. It was colorful and loose. This piece I am photographing. I am holding on too. I am so happy with this work today! The definition of Luminary is a person who inspires or influences others. Something I aspire to be with Hart Party. Something I admire in the people and artists around me who ignite my creative fire . Inspiration does not happen in a vacuum. I am effected by events and people around me. I stir up the " Cinnamon story" which is made up of experiences and in that Metaphorical alphabet soup the meaning bubbles up. This piece is my favorite painting in the whole collection so far . It is also one of my favorites in my life. Top five for sure. This is a full circle piece for me. When I was young I entered an abstract lion water color on arches paper to the Dell Mar Fair show. San Diego's version of the Houston Rodeo. It won and sold. I think I was 11 and that was a pivoting moment for me. My art has value. Not kid value... but real value which translated into a fundamental sense of my own worth. I sometimes lament at selling that piece. I have no pictures which is sad. It was colorful and loose. This piece I am photographing. I am holding on too. I am so happy with this work today!

"Horizon" 4-15-2014 # 21 Daily painting

"Horizon" 4-15-2014 # 21 Daily painting Challenge . So I had more to say in the studio today. I decided to go with it. Sometimes one thought leads to another and I got to thinking about how much time we spent around water as a family. Often sun up to sun down. For a little bit we had a Catamaran with a rainbow sail. My mom has always wanted one. The part she did not know is that sailing can be cold, and wet. That a Cat has no seating to speak of. My dad always worked hard to slove these problems. As a Dane he had a feeling for sailing. I loved when the day would warm up just dozing on the trampoline and watching the horizon. Rocking up and down the water spraying up. The air hung salty and everything was simple. Just waves. I find the ocean is and honest place. I tried to really capture the endless feeling you get looking out to sea at the horizon. Why it calls to sailers. How it felt to me.

Tree, Painting With a Twist, beginner art lesson acrylic online tutorial

Tree painting with a Twist is up and ready for viewing. The obvious twist here is the stained glass feeling and the drips. There is a secret twist. I am excited for people to do this painting because I know what trees mean in the creative process. They are challenging and rewarding, because almost everyone has had a relationship to at least one tree. Some trunk has been witness to life's ups and downs. At somewhere along the way everyone has laid in the ground and starred up through the branches at a blue sky and DREAMED. I had a willow by a stream when I was growing up. It had large rocks to sit on and iris's planted around the base. I sat there daily and imagined all the amazing places my life might go when I grew up. I told stories to no one and sang songs to frogs. A true Judgement free Zone.

This personal painting party needs YOU to be that, a judgement free zone. When we all do this Step by Step painting lesson together I want YOU to be kind to you. The way that beautiful spiritual tree in your heart was kind to you. Listen, allow, and grow with out tearing yourself down. The biggest obstacle  to a new artist is the internal criticism. When I am teaching a class 80% is you fell your doing just fine and 20% is how to paint the painting. The reason is people are the least forgiving of themselves. I want you to be like my willow tree, silent, steady, and comforting. As long as you stay on the painting journey and don't give up you will find an inner artist. The sooner you can embrace today, except that you are in process of becoming more creative everyday  the better artist you will be. Today is wonderful and tomorrow will be better! This gift I am sharing with you will be one you unwrap all your life. Just accept that there is more to you! More than you know, more than your family knows, and more then your friends know. No matter when you pick this artful habit up there will be more! Shel Silverstien knew something very important tree's are giver's of great gifts the greatest of all just being there everyday of our lives.

Enjoy your tree art lesson. Embrace your acrylic painting tutorial. Because like the Tree painting with a Twist you gave room to grow and branch out! The secret of this painting is that the Tree is YOU! Love you Bless you and I hope to see you at the Easel real soon!https://www.facebook.com/hartparty

Painting in the Middle of a Lego Fever

Painting in the Middle of a Lego Fever and keeping your sanity while launching a online Art Program for the soul, a video game, and a daily painting. I am living that insanity but whats more is I am loving it. I do not love my son having a fever and needing to be no more than 5 inches from me. I like the closeness but not the fact that he is feeling awful. I am excited because I am so close to uploading my latest video! One people have been requesting for a month. It all pretty exciting. When I finish this I get to do a story board for the video game.
The reasons for me not to do these things are numerous. I could just be swallowed in a wave of YOU CAN"T. Instead I grab a board called Why Not and I surf that wave. So I am having fun, even playing, instead of trembling on the shore. Thats been me my whole life. Why Not?
Its not easy every day but I am descended from Viking and Irish Rebels I have the lean margin covered. In fact I have something that wears like armor against  all the don'ts, fails, and fumbles. I have imagination. Its the thing that lets you see a future no one else conceives. I can picture me in a place much different from now. I can choose the outcome I project on my inner picture screen and cast my movie with places, people, and events that are delightful to me. I know that how I paint today will morph and change vastly far into the future because I imagine it can.
Thats why I let my kids build Lego's at my feet. They are in training to be creators, builders, makers, and Imagineers.

4-15-2014 "Pasture" Daily painting #20

4-15-2014 "Pasture" Daily painting #20 . So it was a strangely productive day! I am starting to see that nature and my experiences around nature are strong internal themes even as I work out method. I remember growing up on my ranch in Olivenhain Ca sitting on the boulders my parents hauled in to accent our pond and streams. There was a weeping willow that acted like a curtain creating a shimmer and peakaboo effect in the wind. I could sit and day dream for hours watching the light change. Just being present and feeling the wind. Watching the shadows grow, shrink, and grow again. listening for bugs and frogs. I used to like to really look at plants and life around me. How much detail could I see. It always amazed me how complex and organized it all was. How busy a quiet lazy could day to be.

" Thaw" 4-14-2104 daily painting #19

" Thaw" 4-14-2104 daily painting #19 Its Harder than it looks. I am literally spent. My right brain is worn out and the gears are making grinding noises. If I were a car I would have worn through every disposable part doing this. The intense focus and examination this piece took is both wildly rewarding and leaves me... confused. It is so mush harder for me to tell you the story of how something feels then just tell you the story about it. And then will anybody get it?!!!! This is what I struggle with in non objective art. The translation of the world filter. In objective art I can do it and then walk away knowing the viewer will see my point. Mostly because I force them to. I control so much of their reaction. I use light, subject , and context to construct a very clear visual space. I am a bit of a control freak on the canvas and here in this painting while everything is an absolute outpouring of my internal definition of a experience I resist the urge to just throw in the brush and give it to you in an easier format.