Some days I have a clear idea of what I want to work on and other days… Not so much. Today was one of the latter. As I was looking around my living room for some inspiration, I was drawn to the colors in my digital artwork I did a couple years ago for a music inspired show. I decided to start laying down colors with a similar warm to cool transition. As I continued, my cat jumped up and knocked my arm adding a bit of horizontal motion, so I went with that too. Thats the nice thing about creating without an end result in mind, much easier to go with the flow and embrace the mistakes.

After I was happy with the colors, I like to view my painting from different orientations to see if I see a story in any of them. I thought it was reminiscent of a sunset over an urban landscape when I had it vertical with the warm colors up top. I decided to stop there and let it dry. I have a tendency to either over work a piece or go to literal if I keep adding to it once it has spoken to me.

I asked my daughter what she thought, as she was sitting in the room snacking on a sandwich. She said the colors were nice but she doesn’t like abstracts. Honestly, at her age neither did I, but now I love trying to find meaning amongst the chaos. I love the fluidity of meaning from artist to viewer and from one observer to the next. It is like a parade of creativity, first in the making and then infinitely in the viewing.

Do you enjoy abstract art as either the creator or the consumer?