Sometimes artists have muses, I am no exception. Muses are often their source of inspiration. Muses give the artist a sense of passion about something. My muses are words – and the concepts they conjure up for me. Words never cease to inspire me which is why I call myself a conceptual artist and why I write a blog and about beautiful moments in the day.
Posted on August 10 2019
Featured image: She Leaves
To See to Hear
The leaves quiver, twirl are uplifted as the winds caresses them again the background of a solid shaded grey mass of clouds drifting above. Birds song explode in the quiet of early morning. Everything is wonderfully, gloriously alive.
Posted on August 09 2019
Flowers from My Garden Purple, 12×12 Watermedia on paper To see something. Purple, pink, lupus – against rusty orange, gamboge yellow lilies and fuchsia, red, coral inpatients. Summer garden glowing. Planting flowers in a garden is like planting colors in a painting. The colors delight our eyes, trigger our sight to something rare, ...
Posted on August 08 2019
Horizon, 12×2 Watermedia on paper “ A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension.” Oliver Wendel Holmes Have you ever asked yourself how did I come to this thought, this place? This space I am currently in? For example how did I come to think that ...
Posted on August 07 2019
Finding Our Way, 30×40 In Gods dimension. Is like Paint blending, joining, becoming one, changing. Is this not another dimension? This fluidity Could this be where God is In this dimension? This joining, Becoming one Changing?
Posted on August 06 2019
Emerge, 22×30 watercolor on clayboard Art and Truth Earlier in one of my blog posts about technology and art I state that I was not searching for a truth in art. I think like most things I do, I jump to that idea without thinking about what is truth? In the context of ...
Posted on August 05 2019
On The Horizon, 30 x 40, mixed water media on paper Arts need to be passionate. Art needs to be extravagant. And by that I don’t mean expensive. Art needs to spring from the irrepressible, uncontrolled, ungoverned. Art needs to be extraordinary. Art needs to be unpretentious, filled with fantasy, wonderful and joy. Art without passion is ...
Posted on August 04 2019
Can art be serious? Can art take itself seriously? If art is to be taken seriously should art have similar properties say, as science which seems to always be taken seriously? I believe the playground of art has many of the properties of science but art also has properties that science can’t have. Art ...
Posted on August 03 2019
The Path Taken Has anyone noticed in this fast-paced society we live in that we rarely dine anymore and when we do it is usually rushed? We no longer linger over an exquisite glass of wine and savor the delicate flavors of a freshly prepared salad. Entrees are presented with flare, a ...
Posted on July 26 2019
The Aesthetic Sense Sun playing in the woods Motley light Vibrant morsels Golden white Diamonds nestle floating between the leaves Radiant gushing life The day begins Visit Christine’s Studio this weekend, July 26th, July 27th & July 28th from 10am-5pm each day. See and experience her woods and the transcendental serenity of her woods during the Northwoods Art Tour, http://northwoodsarttour.com/. Artists and Their Senses Some artists should ...
Posted on July 24 2019
The Hills Are Alive, Green Fields What does it mean when I make the statement that art is about exploring and discovering? Right now I have reached a point in my art making where there appears to be a gap that needs to be crossed. I feel it in my soul. I have had ...
Posted on July 22 2019
Flowing Waters, 12×12 water media on paper The personal element in art, that of the individual composition of the artist and the individual experience of the viewer allows the concept of art to be always changing always moving. The personal elements of art are the only consistent elements within the concept of ...
Posted on July 20 2019
Going Home, 12×12 watermedia on paper The viewer of an art object does not need to know the intentions of the artist when looking at “art.” The viewer doesn’t need to know the artists intent. The experience of viewing and creating is a private experience of a thing. If one lets it happen and ...
Posted on July 19 2019
Alone on a Cliff, 20×60 watercolor and acrylic on paper Wonderful aesthetic experience this morning. Sitting in my Adirondack chair in the back yard as I do every morning when drinking my first cup of coffee listening to the silence looking into the woods deep. A fledgling robin landed on the grass. Spots ...
Posted on July 18 2019
Under My Umbrella, 12×12, water media on paper Just what are the given properties that work in order to be able to call something a “work of art?” To attempt to answer this question one needs to recognize that these properties of “art” constantly change. It used to be that “content” and “moral values” ...
Posted on July 09 2019
Most color fields today have gotten waxy like old chocolate, but I would answer no that isn’t it. I think the color fields of today, not the ones done by design, but the ones that live deliciously though our sensations, and our sense of things, our personal sense of things are indeed still out there.
Posted on June 26 2019
As many of you know I have stated repeatedly that there needs to be some objectivity in how art is valued, or art will become anything and everything because it only has subjectivity. You need to have something before you can have nothing.
Posted on June 25 2019
Imagine living your life every day, all the time as if no one was ever looking at you. How would you live? Grungy, dirty nails, messy hair, clothes that don’t match, no make up? Or would you live with flamboyance, flair, extravagances of color, feathers, jewels, sparkles, ruby lips, glitter on your eye lashes? You get the picture.
Posted on June 12 2019
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