Reaching for the Sunrise The air is thick Sky vibrant a glow Trees stirred swirling, soft wind Sun rising
Christine's Journal
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.
Aesthetic Moment: To See To Hear
Posted on August 10 2019
Blog: To See
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, ...
Blog: Stretching Your Mind When Creating
Posted on August 08 2019
Blog: Fluidity and God
Posted on August 07 2019
Blog: Art and Truth
Posted on August 06 2019
Blog: Passion and Art
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 ...
Blog: Should Art Be Serious?
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 ...
Blog: Happy Meals and Art
Posted on August 03 2019
Blog: The Aesthetic Sense
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 ...
Blog: The Scaffolding
Posted on July 24 2019
Blog: Art and Camp
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 ...
Blog: The Experience of Art
Posted on July 20 2019
Blog: Aesthetic Experience
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 ...
Blog: What are the Given Properties that Qualify as a Work of “Art?”
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” ...
Blog: Chocolate and Art
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.
Blog: The Value of Art (continued)
Posted on June 26 2019
Blog: Green Fields
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.