tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989974443902798232024-03-14T05:57:33.627-07:00Art by GordonA blog about art, the creation of art and the process of marketing art. What I have learned and what I intend to learn about social media, web marketing and the sale of artwork.Artbygordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548961348156976842noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198997444390279823.post-76612328561110022082018-12-15T08:48:00.000-08:002018-12-15T09:35:00.167-08:00The Insignificant Moments: The Most Precious Gifts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span>An Introvert's Guide to Being Social:</b> No one I meet would say I'm an introvert or anti-social, still as others gather together and converse in the past I have been the one on the edge, to myself. I do really well one-on-one and I enjoy conversation that goes beyond weather, sports or daily trends.<br />
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I like to discuss politics, religion, ethics and philosophy and more important for me is to hear other's opinions on the subject. I am in the process of changing my process because at my age and lot in life, I find myself very much alone.<br />
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I've started becoming the Yes Man-a Jim Carrey movie that truly inspired me. I am eager to meet Zooey Deschanel but that's another story about singles and dating. I have recently begun to force myself into social interaction and the results have been quite wonderful.<br />
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<b>Coffee and Sketch: </b>This is actually two different instances but along the same idea. I recently went to get coffee and normally I would find a seat that faced the window, that allowed me the relief of space between myself and others.<br />
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I always chide the coffee shop crowd and the airplane people who stare at their phones and avoid contact with others. I am just as anti-social, it is a habit we don't even realize we do. So I am forcing myself out of my comfort zone.<br />
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I chose a seat facing everyone, right in the middle of the group and what I found is that suddenly you begin to naturally interact with others and it's not so awkward anymore.<br />
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Another coffee shop, I met a group of sketching people and sketched with them. Again, normally I would find a seat off to the side but instead I was in the middle of it. The more I spoke and listened, the more comfortable I became.<br />
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<b>This is Just Practice:</b> When you go out and be social, you need to ask yourself what is the goal and I realize now I am looking to meet my significant other but I am also looking to grow my circle of friends and acquaintances.<br />
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People need people, we are naturally social beings. I don't need an entorage but a group of close friends would be nice. Mine tend to scatter across the country and perhaps that's why I have avoided a new relationship.<br />
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So far, the meetups have been lacking in the amount of attendants but instead of being disappointed I realize every time I go and be social, it is just practice. It is not easy for a leapard to change it's spots but when he does, it feels pretty amazing.<br />
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<b>Growth and Experience: </b>I have had some amazing moments recently. On Sunday, I enjoyed a musical jam session by local musicians and it was one of wonderful special moments. I felt present and felt the feeling of Christmas spirit for the first time this season.<br />
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I drank coffee, enjoyed a meal, read about social media marketing and listened to local musicians. It was a moment which I never would have experienced if I wasn't out of my comfort zone.<br />
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A few nights ago I went to a meetup in Grapevine and after a great bit of conversation, I enjoyed a long walk through the Christmas capital of Texas and it was another great experience.<br />
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I am working on connecting much of this blog to my website as has always been the intention. This is a review of 2018. It has been quite a year of change and fully realizing my creative life.<br />
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I've begun several series of new paintings, finished some old ones up and started a new series on photography. I am starting to make the newsletter a more regular thing, planning on once a month if my audience wants it. No spam-just a bit of nature once a month.<br />
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I completed several oil paintings and have sold several. The older paintings are about to be archived as I start the new series and a new direction in my art. I am planning on showing more, in fact, I've had a series of paintings hanging at OPA-a local Greek Tavern.<br />
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I am finishing up many of the paintings from the ten months I drove around East Texas selling insurance. I also have some pastels that have become more like sketches in recent years. Planning on enlarging my scope and working toward more full blown finished pastel pieces. From now on I plan on working on boards instead of paper as they will be acid free and more durable.<br />
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I have been working a lot on photography and several series are in the works. The one I'm most excited about is nature snapshots-the artist window. I have grown quite fond of the still life-still all about nature but windows and doors are another aspect of these photographs.<br />
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As you can see-there will be 6 parts of this series as 2018 has been a very busy and productive year.<br />
I've gone from crystals to fruit and now I am a collector of natural things. I have done a lot of walking with my inherited puppy and am painting an ornament for my son with his dog, just in time for Christmas.<br />
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Another added product that I am adding to the brand, ornaments. I am creating limited edition Christmas ornaments that are made to order.<br />
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<a href="http://www.rlclaytonbooks.com/" target="_blank">R.L Clayton</a> and his 9-year-old granddaughter Abbey have finished writing a children's book. I have illustrated it and it is finally available on Amazon. It is the first book in the series I've worked with him that is fully illustrated inside.<br />
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I have become extremely interested in abstract patterns and textures in nature. Have begun selling wall decor with photography with intensified objects of nature. I am excited about 2019 and I hope you would visit the website and get on my newsletter. I plan on creating an ebook to send to all of my subscribers. I look forward to sharing more nature and art for the next year.<br />
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<br />Artbygordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548961348156976842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198997444390279823.post-5221039601160601952018-09-21T08:01:00.001-07:002018-09-21T08:01:12.611-07:00Parkhill Prairie in Late Summer: Craving Peace and Silence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The golden grasses of the prairie are gone replaced by rich greens and yellows. Stands of milkweed and several species of sunflower have given up their seeds. It's quiet, the dickcissels have left their nesting sites and even the hawks aren't soaring quite as much as they did just a few months ago.<br />
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The late summer pause, you can hear the prairie humming with heat, taking a deep breath beneath a pale August sky. A breeze blows a stem of a sunflower with a hint of September approaching but the heat still overpowers.<br />
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I couldn't sit for fear of chiggers among fresh cut grass so I walked silent, desperate to be present. You can go to the most quiet place and still feel overwhelmed by thoughts and worries. Today I struggled to listen to that inner voice and it was a challenge.<br />
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Nature has always been my connection to God but these days I feel like I'm sitting in a quiet room throwing my thoughts and fears into an empty sky. It's not by any means his fault or absence-I know it's all mine. I'm trying to stay present and take stock in all the ways God has and continues to bless my family and me but sometimes the absence of feeling is hard to get beyond.</div>
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The silence in this prairie should find me awake and alive but my inner child sleeps and I can't reach him. I know this will pass, I know depression is a cyclical thing that comes and goes, comes and goes again but the older I get, sometimes it's hard to realize the truth I already have realized for so many years.</div>
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God is my constant and I know he has a plan-foolish are we, children of God who seek to flip the pages, to control the story of our lives. Anxiety is that feeling of a lack of true faith and a need to get a glimpse of the ending, God has his plan and I must wait patiently for the time and the purpose.</div>
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A sad blue landscape, how can you leave me here in autumn rain<br />
alone again...<br />
you realize my dilemma<br />
I made my bed and I lie in it<br />
room in disarray, mind and thoughts decay<br />
sunflowers on worn stems<br />
staring at the ground<br />
the clouds are surrounding my head<br />
I'm drowning but no one can see<br />
staring out of a glass contained,<br />
it's me<br />
I feel no colors, I know no warmth,<br />
even the act of creation seems pointless<br />
this will end, I know it will end<br />
the depressive dares to question<br />
when...<br />
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Intricate stems disconnected, yellow flowers and rich royal blue<br />
shadows of green beneath the gray<br />
I have felt the warmth of sun<br />
but I can't feel the rain<br />
even the sound escapes me<br />
nothing soothing to this state<br />
driving through the broken landscape<br />
they dissected all of our childhood scenes<br />
even the gaurdian is threatened<br />
their grubby steel machines<br />
devouring everything<br />
and I drive alone<br />
no turtles to save on the old dirt road<br />
no interest<br />
all the same<br />
black tart streets with pointless names<br />
its progress they say<br />
but all the landscape is shrunken and gray<br />
I want to be whole again<br />
to feel joy again<br />
the depressive voice dares to question<br />
when<br />
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I know the pointless hours<br />
I know the empty field<br />
and the blackbirds in swarms<br />
like scraps of black paper across a field<br />
I know the dark landscape<br />
the burned soil<br />
it climbs into my eyes<br />
and makes everything dark<br />
I've driven against the wind<br />
out in a field<br />
seeking silence and peace<br />
wondering, praying<br />
when will this darkness<br />
the depression<br />
cease...Artbygordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548961348156976842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198997444390279823.post-57330219950993983012018-09-10T12:32:00.003-07:002018-09-10T12:32:54.081-07:00Remnants of Nature: Lessons in a Forest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been here before, the remnants of spring cling to weathered stems. Nature teaches us lessons and everything we need to know is in the garden and is explained with the season, we just need to open our eyes.<br />
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After the joy and beauty of color fades, there is a grayness, a serious tone as purpose supersedes beauty. Wisdom is the seeds that perfect ways to travel from the stem with definite intentions for next spring. Wind works with rain and the cycle is complete, some even work with the winter frost: we could learn much from such observations both about our own vanity as well as fortitude and purpose.<br />
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There is a natural beauty in age and decay. Humanity creates the unnatural fear and morbidity of death, in nature, it is all for a purpose. The seeds wait for the warmth of spring that will rise from the garden next season with the same spectacle and an innate hope.<br />
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<b>Purple: Faith is a Flower in My Garden</b><br />
<b><br /></b> Purple is a supernatural color. It should be the color of the sash of a royal bumble bee, as it flies magically against the laws of science and nature. That's the beauty of nature, it doesn't conform to our expectations and yet it aligns with the basics of logic and reason in its own right.<br />
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There are more secrets in nature than answers-man's greatest flaw is the pride in his certainty of what he thinks he knows. Nature constantly breaks borders, pushes past weed barriers and outlives the pesticides and when man perfects his war on nature-nature is patient and changes to meet the challenge.<br />
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One job of the creative is to learn the language of nature and describe it. We have the wonderful challenge of seeing beyond our own eyes and thinking past our limitations of thought and reason.<br />
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<b>An Oakland State</b><br />
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This morning I walked the streets and remembered Oakland. The light drizzle of rain was cool and it felt like pins and needles on my skin. I could smell remnants of crepe myrtle and magnolia, I noticed all the overgrown lots and flowers of bindweed clmbing the fences.<br />
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The landscape had a cool blue tint and the clouds conspired in the distance and I was at peace. I remembered walking the streets and realized I rarely enjoy it like I do there and the reason was not only the wonderful company of a dear friend but the fact that nothing was going on. Sometimes we just need to stop and listen.<br />
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The summers in Texas are often too hot to really enjoy much other than sweating and feeling out of breath. Today I decided from now on I would stop and see, enjoy every aspect of the moment. It was a wonderful morning.<br />
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<b><br /></b>Artbygordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548961348156976842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198997444390279823.post-35879904236716522612018-08-18T12:09:00.000-07:002018-08-18T12:41:07.230-07:00The Loneliness Project: In Pictures Part I<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is the absence of something, most of the time something we took for granted for a long time before we realize it's gone. The swing settles in the family tree and only a random breeze will wake it from its slumber.<br />
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I remember the cool green grasses and clothes blowing across the long lines of rope making shapes and patterns like ghosts. I remember the simplicity of a great blue sky and a child's mind full of opportunities.<br />
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There are so many times we fall off the swing, we skin our knees and assume that no one is coming with the clean washcloth or the gentle encouraging voice; we grow up. We become self-sufficient, we are taught to ignore the swing, the green grass and the great blue sky as if they were just childhood foolishness.<br />
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We barely realize they're gone but the child inside us still yearns to stop, to seek comfort, to search with an explorers heart for wonders among the grass and secrets in the woods.<br />
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It is this loneliness, missing a child that always found time to play, to look up to the sky in search for something great. How I miss the swing and the tall willows throwing viridian shadows, I consciously aspire for my own resurrection.<br />
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The green lawn, the red and white shed before it was an eyesore, back when it had a purpose. We would have family dinners in the backyard, the kids would take orders and there was a barbecue fired up, it was summer.<br />
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I remember a large gathering of people, usually Easter, after church we'd sit outside. It was back before mosquitoes became the deadly creatures they are.<br />
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I remember plastic chairs and long white plastic table clothes, laughter and drama-it was a family gathering after all.<br />
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Now the family is scattered to multiple states. Many of the members I remember are dead, some still live near the same town but we are all separate.<br />
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I miss the bond of family, even if what I remember wouldn't match reality. I"m sure there was more tension among them but I was young. I had the privilege to grow tired of having guests.<br />
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I would love to sit in my Aunt Ann's kitchen listening to the old woman with stories and small talk. I would enjoy sitting in the living room with all the men watching sports and talking trash but time moves on and we don't realize the connections or their significance in our lives.<br />
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<b>The Precarious State of Loneliness</b><br />
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There are so many more like me...but we are all separate,<br />
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How uncomfortable it is, longing for contact<br />
and yet unable to fathom its joy<br />
To seek solitude while aching for connection<br />
it's the most difficult state as nothing seems to feel comfortable<br />
time is slow and yet fast and random simultaneously<br />
I have lived here<br />
I have driven a long road, alone, missing others<br />
and yet insistent on my own solitude<br />
is it the soul's nature of knowing its own state<br />
but curious for another?<br />
Fear keeps us<br />
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Awkward we are souls in transition.<br />
I forced my way through loneliness<br />
until I grew comfortable with myself<br />
it was only then that I could fathom<br />
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and it's joyful conclusion...<br />
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The colors of humanity<br />
ebb and flow just like the seasons<br />
but they are to be shared<br />
not squandered<br />
our voices are like the fleeting colors of autumn<br />
how they linger among the tangled limbs<br />
to grow as a wonderfully colorful<br />
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they become stories among grasses<br />
ghosts in the shadows<br />
until they settle on stones<br />
and sleep like whispers...<br />
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we were never meant to be alone<br />
we are all notes in a beautiful song<br />
so when did we stop singing?<br />
<br />Artbygordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548961348156976842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198997444390279823.post-38662317802159384862018-08-05T16:13:00.001-07:002018-08-05T16:13:09.467-07:00The Intricacies of Light: A Second Skin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Joy is a child's unique expression of the world. The intricacies of faith, hope and seeing with honesty and simplicity restores some of that beauty the world teaches us to abandon.<br />
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A creative must bridge the gap between being an adult, realizing and abiding by wisdom and seeing past that which is discernable. It is only than that we realize our innate simplicity and can allow the child to coexist with the adult.<br />
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No one ever chooses to be ordinary or common but often safety is what keeps us reasonable and comfortable. It is tearing away the skin, with as much violence and tension as it would literally seem that we find our new self and the rejoice of our child inside that never died but was only sleeping.<br />
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The summer rages through breathless days, cicadas buzzing in yellowing fields, the sunflowers giving up all of their sweetness and color. A heavy haize taints a blue sky as the birds scavenge for anything that's left alive.<br />
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The heat breathes in and out like a beast from a forest. Seeds settling to the parched earth, all that can be done, is done. Even the normally chatty wren or the raucous mockingbird keep themselves in check.<br />
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Only the young birds, bluejays and cardinals hop from dried up nests desperate for the promise of seed, the sunflower complies.<br />
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I watch every day unfold like a novel I've almost memorized. The morning breeze, cool and insistent that the sun is on its way. The crows in garbled conversation speaking in tongues, arguing like old men on the street corner.<br />
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The nearby roads and even the highways hold their breath. It's 9:AM, the stillness stirs the birds from hidden roosts. Squirrels chase eachother with jobs to do before the sun burns away the hues of the sky.<br />
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As afternoon unfolds, the highways start breathing, a heavy breath of cigarette smoke, car exhaust and the dust from deserts of Africa-the sky turns yellowish and gray. The cicadas are insistent, sighing as if disgusted with summer-the heat is inevitable and none of us have any breath left.<br />
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I've watched this scene again and again, I longed for the evening when all sounds are hushed. When all the cars have gone back to their homes, where everything is calm again.<br />
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It will happen again tomorrow until summer loses its battle and like the blooms of summer sunflowers-Summer will relinquish its breath and we will all take a deep sigh, a sad but necessary breath and a sweet goodbye.<br />
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Just a glimpse, but I can barely remember what it looked like before. Near signs that insist no littering, there are piles of trash, families, big loud families, walking along a crowded road where no one seems able to go the speed limit.<br />
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It's hot, even the promise of the waterfalls don't offer much. If you could see the full view of the photograph you would see a crowd of people in a hot, murky pool, the water is not really hot but it might as well be.<br />
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I went there with a purpose, I wanted to get some background information for a painting I'm reviving, I'm getting back to water, trying to see what I used to see. I am still left to guess on the details.<br />
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This place is nothing like I remember, there are crowds of people, herds of families carrying floats and chairs-they all look exhausted. The water is yellow instead of its normal blue and greens, it's so murky you can't see beneath the surface.<br />
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There are tents on concrete, families on the edge of grass and road, instead of being more relaxed I am more tense and exhausted from the heat.<br />
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I'll go again, but not until summer is over. I will wait until nature revives its original state-some of the trash will remain but at least the crowds will shrink, maybe than I will get the details I need for the painting.<br />
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No one remains inside, that stone wall seem useless at best. There is no glass hiding the self, no locks, no mechanism to deny access.<br />
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Nature embraces the soul. It's warm enticing arms become a fortress given away. The self erupts, becoming the truth it needs to be. I am eager to know my second skin, to realize the possibilities of hope, of tomorrow embraced with fingers reaching from paradise to insist that I was here and I am still alive.<br />
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My window is open, my doors wide, I hope to allow the possibilities, people, goodness to meet inside.<br />
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<br />Artbygordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548961348156976842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198997444390279823.post-89517727322017125202018-07-30T10:19:00.000-07:002018-07-30T10:19:00.045-07:00A Love of Color: Nature in Purest Form<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This series started with blue jay feathers-the blues were so rich against a gray background. In our busy lives we often ignore the simple things and when our eyes open to the beauty and simplicity of color and texture more of our soul comes to life.<br />
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This clarity and consciousness of form and color is where the artist lives. A sensitivity to colors that create mood and texture, we creatives are vessels that the outside world works through to become a force.<br />
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If our eyes and our souls are awake and alive we suddenly start to notice every richness of nature that is present in everyday life.<br />
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The flower is usually realized when it is first born, that first spectacular bloom but the colors change and often even intensify even after the bloom has gone past its initial purpose. Quite suddenly images in the neighborhood began to appear as obvious as watching the spectacle of a sunset.<br />
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The first painting is calle the painbirds. I got the idea from Sparklehorse-Good Morning Spider and added the passionvine because they are symbolic in much of my writing, I also collect them.<br />
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The lake is a simplified Lake Ray Hubbard and most of the focus was on the bridge and the storm in the distance. This painting started in my house in Sachse and sat on the easel, as many paintings do, for more than a year.<br />
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I finally finished it in a day in 2016 I think. Immediately following this painting was the Swallows in Sunset, not much to tell although I think the water area is from a scene in Florida. The same process, it started out on my easel and stayed unfinished for several months.<br />
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The next painting is finally completed. It is called the Celebration, it was inspired by watching Lake Ray Hubbard finally fill again. It was after the drought and the swallows were all around the bridge in celebration. I started it in 2016 or so and never finished it until just yesterday afternoon.<br />
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The problem with getting attached with a painting in the beginning stages is you lose confidence to go beyond your original feeling of success. It is part of my series of water studies, getting back to the basics of water and why I started painting it in the first place.<br />
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It is the smallest of the three paintings and has the most swallows. The bridge with all the nesting swallows was further inspired by a trip to North Sulphur river where the swallows were flying around the bridge and many were even swarming picking up the mud to create their nests.<br />
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My studio is too hot, I want to be outside where it's too hot, I have a dog, I have a son, I want to go somewhere; so many reasons why I don't paint. I realized today though something more difficult to get past.<br />
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I realize there is necessary discipline in painting, writing and any other creative endeavor but the question today is what if you're just not there yet? I cleaned the studio, and was able to see the previous paintings, there are so many things that have changed and continue to change in how I see and how I want to show what I've seen.<br />
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There is another stumbling block, the purpose in painting, I've always said I'd prefer not just paint a landscape with no feeling. There are so many intangible feelings that seem to haunt me and those are the core of what I want to show.<br />
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There a darkness, a loneliness, a separation that all seem to follow my work. It seems lately there is perhaps a bit more, too much time alone working as a traveling sales person I guess. Now I have the insight of being alone and feeling content in being alone but there is still that feeling of unease that I feel and want to show.<br />
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My painting has gone from very dark, more realistic and than bright, rich and fun, now I feel I've jumped back to dark but there is something else that I want to say and that seems very cryptic at the moment.<br />
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In this recent sitting, I realized I want to get back to painting night and water with the skill and clarity of older works and yet with some sort of intangible light I've only recently realized. This light I think is from being immersed with photography lately.Artbygordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548961348156976842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198997444390279823.post-56148592618965915112018-05-19T18:17:00.004-07:002018-05-19T18:17:58.642-07:00Rediscovering Subject Matter with a Mature Eye<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On the wall of my studio are two paintings of waterfalls from the Cascades in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It's a series of paintings from a very special time in my life, I had just gotten married and enjoyed an idyllic honeymoon in New England.<br />
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It's in the Cascades where I became obsessed with waterfalls. The sounds, the colors and the depth and clarity of water, they became a common theme in my paintings. When we are younger we see through eyes untainted by expectations or attempts to suit style or current trend.<br />
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Since the original series there have been several that I believe now became more expressionistic which is fine but I believe I left something crucial out of the mix.<br />
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It is always an artists job to decide what to leave in and what to leave out. What is too realistic or to abstract and what feeling is intended for the viewer: all go into the final product of creating something from nature.<br />
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Today I went to the Park Hill Prairie. I wanted to study the pristine water and get back to the basics of how water interacts with its surroundings, weather and its angle from the viewer.<br />
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I redefined what it is about water that I love and aim to share with the viewer is the intangible coldness one can imagine, the depths and mystery of its many layers and the simplicity of the mirror.<br />
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Just like creating a rose with droplets of dew-the final realistic image is much more simple than one would first think. It's the simplicity of the rendering that keeps the viewers eyes imagining the depth and the feeling of the surface.<br />
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I am excite about getting back to the canvas and reinvigorating my passion for nature and the intricacies of water. Stay tuned.<br />
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I am more focused on the atmosphere of my paintings rather than a specific place. Although many paintings are from real places, my intent is to convey how it feels to be there, the feeling of cold breeze or dark shadow.<br />
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I like the tension between figures and the tension between the painting and the viewer. Some of my paintings have been described as otherworldly, a feeling like something is just not quite right.<br />
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I am haunted by nature and the mystery that exists, the silence in the evening or the quiet before a storm. I believe if an artist can make a viewer feel an emotion when looking at a painting, it's the difference between creating an attractive painting or an emotional tool.<br />
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There is an intangible and often cryptic voice in every painting I create. It is how the act of painting can touch the viewer, make them feel something that is more than the surface of a canvas.<br />
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I want the viewer to come away from my painting with a feeling they're not quite sure of, or a memory they can connect with. I want the viewer to make their own experience of my work.<br />
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<b>Why Paint? A Simple Question with so Many Answers: </b>The simplest answer is the intense joy of creating something from nothing. Imagine a place that you see in a dream, it's beautiful, you don't want to leave but you wake up and it's gone; painting allows the artist to capture that place and when it becomes real there is nothing like the feeling.</div>
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Another feeling is when there is no specific, concrete image but instead a feeling or an idea that you have that becomes a form, something you can choose to explain or leave as its own voice. There is an absence of any stresses and distractions and the mind and body find a sync that I've never found doing anything else.</div>
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<b>What would you like the viewer to see or experience?: </b><b>The Many Goals of Creating: </b>The pure enjoyment of being creative is tempered with the discipline of getting it right. The ability to see and capture reality too perfectly or to say something without over explaining it.</div>
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Artists are navigators, we bring our viewers in and show them what we see or feel. We allow them a glimpse of our expression and than we relinquish all control as the viewer makes the image or the journey their own.</div>
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For me, that is the highest complement, when someone gets your cue within an image and brings their own feelings and memories to make the painting their own. The artist has created a living image that evokes emotion or feelings and it is no longer a two dimensional image, it is a tool that evokes emotion, brings thought, soothes or frightens.</div>
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Frightens is an odd verb to attribute to painting but some of my paintings come from a place of depression or discomfort, I would rather a person feel frightened or uncomfortable rather than feel nothing. </div>
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I want my feeling and intent in creating to become something that the viewer feels and understands in their own terms. To paint and evoke an emotion is like speaking in a different language than anyone else and having a stranger understand your language. That is the magic of creating art.</div>
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Every thing we do as creative people adds to the tools we use. If we observe nature, do yoga, get in touch with our inner selves or just take the time to learn, we are always growing as artists.<br />
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I have recently been unable to paint, I stare at paintings I've already started and nothing happens. It's amazing and dramatic the feeling of sitting in front of what is a foreign entity.<br />
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Months or even years ago, I did an underpainting, nothing has happened since. I was inspired once but now it seems I push paint around and have no idea of what direction to take.<br />
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Recently, I have photographed much more than painted. I have used discipline to keep shooting even when the inspiration was missing. Suddenly the most mundane image becomes something special, I believe, like a muscle, it is the creative mind practicing and expanding.<br />
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Here are a few recent images that have inspired me. I am planning on creating an E-book with all of the images of the 365 day photo challenge and making it <a href="http://artbygordon.com/" target="_blank">available free to subscribers</a>.<br />
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I will be adding poetry to the images that will explain the creative process and why I took the photograph in the first place. I will be adding the images and the words as it progresses, would love to have opinions and what would interest my readers in not only reading but what photographs they like.</div>
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Suddenly the image that seemed like someone elses' painting for months now has all the directions written out. My brush knows where to go, what colors go where and very suddenly I know exactly what needs to be done. After getting away from the painting you start to see some hidden strokes and techniques that I would never consciously think of and yet in the frenzy of painting everything makes perfect sense.</div>
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I can't even explain how exciting a feeling it is and how quickly the work becomes when suddenly you have a new view of the whole process. Very soon, I will be sharing the latest and they will be available on the website as well. Stay tuned and I would love any feedback. Thanks</div>
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<span style="font-family: , serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">I bought these amethyst
years ago because I thought they were interesting. I planned on putting them in
a tank or doing something interesting with them for a long time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I tried to capture the colors and richness of the deep purples. It was when I
introduced the quartz crystal that I noticed the exquisite light that was
glowing inside it with the setting of the sun.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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As the last bit of sun grew more intense the light radiated from the crystals
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When we are young, we develop habits, some good, some not so good. I have every excuse to be disorganized as I'm creative and it's a creative trademark but I have seen what happens without organization and a game plan. You push paint around....I"m gonna trademark that one of these days-maybe a book, Yes, a book.<br />
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<b>Pushing Paint Around: </b>I've always talked about times of fermentation and I still believe in it although I believe discipline and organization can help in two ways.<br />
• When the inspiration strikes you are ready and available to work instead of fighting with obstacles and disorder. Disorder is something that is very agitating in a moment of inspiration. I have experienced the feeling of being ready to shoot an amazing photograph but your equipment was either not taken care of or something you needed wasn't available in the chaos.<br />
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• I think the disorganization keeps the holding pattern longer and prolongs the feeling of fermentation. I realize that as an artist, things inspire me regularly, my life and surroundings should be uncluttered and available to realize the inspiration of light, of objects, of nature.<br />
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• Disorder can depress and confuse the already cluttered mind. So many thoughts stream through becoming dried dead leaves on the bottom of a great flood instead of the light and the colors that dance on the surface of the water. How many thoughts and ideas have been lost due to clutter and chaos?<br />
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<b>Stop Playing: Start Doing, No Excuses: </b>I pride myself on the ability to be honest with myself about my shortcomings. There is no way to change or improve if certain parts of your personality are set in stone. I quit smoking many years back and one thing I never did is say, I'm a smoker and that's the end, I was always open to quitting and eventually I did.<br />
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I have a lot of disorder in my life, I don't take care of my things the way I need to. I could use the excuse of being an artist and having a chaotic mind but I"m continually insisting I can improve.<br />
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<b>Discipline: </b>is the ingredient in a cake that makes all the ingredients rise and be a cake, it is the binding that keeps the creative endeavor on track. I plan on one day having an agent but until than I need to discipline myself to be the best I can. Discipline and organization are two qualities I will use to take a life time of pushing paint into a career that I can be proud of.<br />
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<b>Honesty:</b> is what allows you to perfect what ever you are doing. The initial ego and excitement of creation can overshadow your subject. I have painted many portraits and animal images that at the time I was quite proud of but later saw them closer to reality.<br />
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Honesty and humility is the only way I know to get to the next level of this craft. I don't think an artist ever arrives at a place where they are an artist and that's that. It is a continual growing process and the image you are supposed to create is very illusive and changes with age. I have just recently started to see glimpses of the image I have sought for so many years.<br />
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<b>Self-Reflection:</b> This can really include all of the above but there can be no growth and success without self reflection and there can be little self reflection without quiet. A place, a time to be present to truly take stock in the work you've done and the work you will do, this is how an artist breaks forward and become what they are intended to be.<br />
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<b>Teaching Painting and the Gallery Critique: </b>I don't think art has ever been meant to be an isolated craft, I'm not saying creation is not an isolated and personal act but I do feel it needs to not be in a bubble. For me, art is something that needs to be interactive, the viewer must react or it is a beautiful tree hidden in a forest. It is still as beautiful and every bit important but it doesn't speak to anyone.<br />
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I want my viewers to react, to feel something and that charge of chemistry between the viewer and a piece of art creates a relationship that begs to be available and shared. I want what ever I create to be taken as a personal memory, a cherished thought or idea that connects deeper than the surface. The viewer nor the artist really needs to know the reality, it is that intangible and mysterious interaction that makes great art.<br />
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I have gained more from teaching art and receiving critiques from galleries than I have ever received from simple words of encouragement. You burst the bubble, you get out of what is comfortable and understood and you explore not only your own reasons for creating but how they are taken by the novice and the expert, it is a wonderful disruption of what you see is common or ritual.<br />
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I went into my studio this morning and started organizing. I felt like I was digging through some one's attic and finding perhaps a past life that has been waiting to be discovered. Suddenly the ideas became more clear, the abstract made more sense and the true need for discipline jumped out as if I was saving an artist from their own chaos. Stay tuned for a lot of work.....<br />
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Sometimes it just happens, I've set up this still life for the last week or so and nothing has jumped out. Often, much like a painting that sits on the easel with nothing to add, an image needs to become what it needs to. Sometime it's the simplest bit of light that paints an object that turns the mundane into something special.</div>
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I have stood in front of sunsets that seemed for all purpose amazing and yet the eye seems not to notice the intricacies. It is the most subtle light and the illusive hue that makes a simple subject more profound. These images capture a feeling of an afternoon, the sun descending somewhere outside and a memory of a rainy afternoon or an early spring day.</div>
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What struck me most about these still life objects is the background, a subtle orange or yellow hue that makes the whole atmosphere seem anything but ordinary. I want the viewer to taste the sweetness of the blood orange or the bitter yellow in the lemon. These colors paint the scene in an intangible presence and I believe that is when the mundane and simple becomes extraordinary. This is my quest as an artist to find the intricacies in light and a moment of the ordinary and make it say something to the viewer.</div>
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I went to the Dallas zoo with the idea of getting close-up animal portraits. I spent 30 minutes watching the gorillas and talking to the zoo keeper. Each gorilla has their own personality and I enjoyed learning about the individuals.<br />
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I watched a group of chimps in a very tender moment. It's amazing how much more you see when you stop and enjoy them instead of running to the next exhibit. The two chimps sat and groomed each other while a young baby hid behind the bushes and played, doing somersaults and enjoying the sunshine.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Next I was lucky to have a cheetah sitting right by the window of the enclosure. The pair of cheetahs were quite active as well and stepped into the light. I got to see more of their personalities than usual, the last time I remember seeing them resting in pasture too far for my telephoto to capture anything but a group of spots.</span></div>
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The giraffes were fun because they come up to get feed, you can pay to get some leaves to feed them. I was impressed by the textures in the face and the eyes and the intricacies of the spots.</div>
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To create when nothing inspires is where discipline comes in. You are forced to see beyond a gray winter day and seek light when there is none available and I believe that is the fuel that feeds creativity when the muse doesn't show.<br />
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I have also been in a situation where the scenery was so breathtaking you couldn't do it justice even if you tried. I was in Glacier National Park and between altitude sickness and a feeling of being overwhelmed, it was hard to shoot something that was truly remarkable.<br />
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There is a great space where you need to work a bit harder to see beyond what is obvious and yet the light is perfect, this is the sweet spot and what follows is a landscape where the creative thrives.<br />
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I love the patterns in nature. As an artist, finding a unique perspective that can show a viewer something they might not have seen before is a large part of my artistic intent.<br />
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I have always painted landscapes and seascapes but I could never perfect what is already real. I am competing with the greatest artist of them all: God. All I can hope for is to show the viewer an aspect of that image that moved me and perhaps move the viewer with the same or varied feeling.<br />
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As I have been photographing more regularly, I have found the need to see deeper than just the landscape. Especially when the light does not cooperate with the subject or doesn't show up at all.<br />
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I learned to isolate parts of nature when my desire to photograph didn't lend itself to the light of the day. On a gray winter day, when there is nothing but flat, bland light and no objects are discernible by any effective modeling, I have discovered a new way of seeing the landscape.<br />
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I started seeing how images were painted by stray bits of light. Suddenly instead of a bland landscape, I was able to find just a piece of that landscape that could be a graphic object. I don't even care if the final image is discernible, it is more the aspect of its abstract nature that intrigues me.<br />
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I have started gathering autumn leaves, green leaves and patterns in water, in the past I would have struggled to find something in abstract but now the image jumps out at me. It's a muscle and to strengthen this way of seeing the landscape has changed my whole outlook on contemporary art.<br />
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I believe that bringing nature into the house can evoke a calm center as well as a conversation piece for visitors. I like how without representing a specific subject, the image evokes something without trying too hard to be abstract or artsy. I have found my way to the abstract and contemporary subject.<br />
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It's been a long gray couple of days and the light has been inexistent. At the end of the day though, just a bit of light pierced through the windows and my cat was watching the birds as is his habit.</div>
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I photographed him with limited flash, a raw image that I used Photoshop to accentuate the bit of light touching his face and whiskers. </div>
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I liked how graphic the image became. You can see the eye and his personality but he is become a bit of an abstract image of a cat. Even the light in the eye is hard and graphic and yet I believe you can still he an illusive nature in the image.</div>
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I am beginning to enjoy the idea of abstraction more than previously. I like the isolated abstract patterns of nature that create themselves a not so ordinary image of an image we see every day, in this case it's my cat, the birdwatcher, A.K.A Frady.</div>
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I remember Manasquan Inlet where I can still see my dad fishing on the jetties. He handed the pole to my older brother and up came a sea robin, a strange fish with wings for fins. My grandma got goosed by a stingray and I discovered mole crabs.<br />
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I had all the golden books about the seashore and it's inhabitants and fishing was superseded by nature, shells and just being by the ocean. When I was thirteen my stepdad bought us saltwater fishing rods and what followed was an odyssey to catch the holy grail of east coast fishing....the giant striper.<br />
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We would live-line bait from the rocks, caught many birds, a few black fish but not one striper. I always dreamed of disappearing from the group and coming back with a giant striper but it never happened.<br />
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We also fished for flounder, again not that much luck and after a while I began to take fishing for granted. I would give anything to go fishing in Belmar today.<br />
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After a long day on the jetties, the first gulp of Stewart's root beer cut through a day's thirst with an amazing rapturous sting. There were long nights spent fishing on the beach with surf tubes only to be awoken by my stepfather jumping up to set the rod I was supposed to be watching.<br />
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The mornings we'd chase the flocks of birds chasing schools of baitfish as bluefish boiled the water. We'd throw metal lures into the schools and with every cast a powerful fighting bluefish.<br />
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We would fish on the pier in Point Pleasant where we saw a plane crash into the ocean, a swimmer who seemed intent on killing himself and I discovered the illusive weakfish. You let the lure sink to the bottom and if the bluefish don't hit it on the way down you get weakfish.<br />
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The wonderful thing about weakfish is they run and it was a wonderful exciting feeling to realize you just hit a monster that was running full speed out to sea. I even was lucky enough to catch several with my Uncle Bill-I remember him asking as the line screamed, "What you got there?"<br />
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We still have those rods and all I can say is we definitely got a lot of use and wonderful memories out of them. I would say they were one of the best gifts we had received that literally carved out a piece of my childhood.<br />
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I never did catch the Striper, although I did seem him under the waves when we dove for lobster in Shark River Inlet. We caught lots of other fish and spent many a night building memories. How I miss the ocean and yet since then we have adopted a special place in our hearts for Florida.<br />
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On the next post, I'll explain how we actually started catching fish and they got bigger. We caught tarpon in the keys in the next post.<br />
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My first love is nature. My two defining subjects for my art are the depths and intricacies of water and the mysteries of the night sky.<br />
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I love how darkness has so many hues, much like white light is the spectrum of all colors, so is darkness multiple shades of one side of the spectrum. I enjoy the way light vibrates and dances in darkness.<br />
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My intention has always been to capture nature with as much realism as possible and than after I've achieved the skills I would tweak reality. I want the viewer to feel the darkness and at times not feel quite safe or even comfortable.<br />
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I wish for my paintings to allow the viewer to get lost in the darkness with peace and a bit of mystery.<br />
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There is a certain awe of the evening sky, the way colors glisten in darkness. I love flowers that bloom only at night haunting the air with that intangible fragrance of some unknown nectar. </div>
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I used to walk in the snow at night and enjoy that feeling of being separate from everything. </div>
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I experimented with complementary colors and weaving colors that make light jump out of the canvas. The first image where I tried this technique is a painting of the red light towers in Cedar Hill, Texas. I imagined if you surrounded the reds in the darkest greens they would light up and vibrate....it worked perfectly.</div>
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I later discovered how impressionists would weave complementary colors in the shadows that would evoke that vibration of color in their works. I was hooked.</div>
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There is nothing static in nature, everything vibrates with an energy. Nothing is constant, even while the beautiful leaves of spring are rich and vibrant green they are slowly changing to another color and will vibrate with that color by autumn. This is how I approach painting, everything changes and is in the state of change, colors vibrate and darkness and light are constantly fighting against each other. </div>
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Halloween is a particular season I like to paint. I have painted several images of Halloween. It's that intangible feeling of a painting that is on its surface harmless but beneath the paint there is something not quite comfortable.<br />
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I love when a viewer says they feel cold or uncomfortable but they're not sure why. That is when paint and color transcend their boundaries of a canvas and touch a feeling that the viewer can only understand. Even if they can't understand or explain the feeling the painting evokes-that's the magic of successfully capturing a feeling and not just a scene.<br />
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As a viewer, what does the night sky do for you? What do you celebrate about darkness and what wonderful memory does darkness bring to you? If you paint, what you seek to capture?</div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px;">In the black-green water of a late summer day, a bobber tests a child’s patience. With each new cast his father and brother look on with disgust. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">"Leave it out there," "It was the wind, "Stop bringing it in", "Okay, now it's tangled" I can still hear their voices making my memories of fishing as aggravating as theirs.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Never too still to wait, the red bobber resting surrounded by ripples, the unseen ghosts of fish, the phantom waves and the subtle tug on a tense line, the boredom and excitement. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px;">And finally the stick that the hook was hung on rises to the surface. You crank it until it stops and there is nothing more coming in. "You're snagged!", insert colorful language and no one is catching anything.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #3e7683; font-family: "roboto" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white; letter-spacing: 0.1px;">I know I must have driven my brother and father crazy, I'll admit it. I still remember</span> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">the wonderful smells of summer by the lake and spring by a rushing stream. I never caught one trout, I would cast, it would drift, reel it in and cast out again and than there were the birds and insects and anything else to divert my attention. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">We fished into the evening not worrying about the dreaded mosquito, we trudged through muddy stagnant water without concern for the killer amoeba. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">We didn't have all the information from the ever helpful news or the web banner warnings, in fact we were rarely inside long enough to listen much to anything and that ignorance was freedom and it was beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">A palette is a range of hues for an artist to paint with,
also a board in which those colors are mixed on. Even when we are painting
within a limited palette or see our palette of subject matter as a range of
interests, there are other palettes we use everyday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">I believe creation is formed from multiple feelings and
emotions; there are raw nerves that the creative uses to create something on a
blank canvas, a poised shutter or the story that highlights an opera or
ballet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are hidden secrets embedded in artwork that the viewer
usually can't see but can magically feel. This is how I believe art moves
people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Memories Like the Corners of Our Canvas:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Memories stir emotions. The most subtle feeling
awoken by memory can haunt a piece of work and give to the viewer something
they've never experienced before. The secondary response is when a piece of
work evokes the viewer's own memories and suddenly the artist gives up his
creation to be owned by the viewers' perception of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Inside the memory palette there are multiple sensual
aspects. Smells bring back emotions and feeling that can be relived in the
viewer. The transferal of those sensual feelings from an image and the evoking
of memories is the magic that is creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sensual Beasts We Are:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">We are constantly using the senses
we have and unfortunately we often experience them on autopilot. For my
intentions, I want the viewer of my art to stop and perhaps reignite how a
child feels things. I want the excitement of the first snow of the season or
the amazing colors of a sunset, I want the viewer to experience them again and
touch nerves in their own pasts they might have forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">One painting that captured this and has recently defined a
direction in my artwork is a painting called the Silence of Stars. If you
really stop long enough to experience a sky full of stars, there is a silence,
an awe you feel as if you are realizing how quietly awesome the universe is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">My son, only 10 at the time asked me to watch the stars, we
must have looked crazy laying down on the rocks and watching the stars-it is a
memory I will never forget and his favorite painting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Crabtrap: Destin Florida © Artbygordon 2015</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">More Than the Sum of Its' Parts:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Have you ever listened to a song in another language
and yet you feel the sadness and couldn't explain why. There is obviously sad
music and yet there is also music that is not so sad as it is beautiful. There
are certain songs that I can barely listen to because they evoke a hidden
emotion that I can feel. Often beauty is poignant or it's something that brain
interprets that is not necessarily obvious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have done paintings to me were not sad or frightening and
yet somehow the viewer experienced feelings from something they took from the
painting, whether that is a memory or just the colors. Again the viewer takes
the creation and makes it theirs-it no longer matters what the artist intended
and that is beautifully intangible much like the sadness in a song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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