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May 19, 2012

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New Perspectives

A new series is well underway. The exciting thing about this particular series is that it is made up of all the oldest ideas and sketches that I always envisioned but never quite got to paint. I have been learning to see as honestly and clearly as possible and transferring this to the canvas without filling in the blanks. It's not the easiest thing to do as the logical mind is always trying to use shorthand to explain the image it needs to relate. The paintings are all from different, often awkward positions. The viewer will look up from the bottom of the ocean and see the moon, this is a painting from something I saw about twenty five years ago, I have never seen the same transparent ultramarine blue since. I have had this image in my mind for so long I almost know it by heart. Another image is the rain barrel, the image that started me on the whole journey of painting water. I always equated the leaves floating up and down from the bottom almost like ghosts rising and falling...

I’ Ghost

Tonight's questions - For fellow creatives-what inspires you to create and do words often come from pictures or do pictures follow words? For the non-creatives-what about art attracts or interests you and again do you think of images while reading a story or do images tell more of a story than words? I hope to have lots of comments and insights on both sides of the creative spectrum-maybe we'll all learn something about what inspires us and where true inspiration originates from. In this blog I will include a painting and than the words behind them-normally that would be poetry but in this case it is more of a prose description of a time and place. At the beginning of football season-my son was ten I think, I sat on the ground watching storms pass through the sky over the field as all the parents wondered if they would call the practice but it continued. Later we even sat on slick bleachers and ignored the fact that we were all soaked, that's parenting I guess and I ca...

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