abstract art

  • Playing with my art

    Today I am feeling a bit under the weather, so rather than pull out my paints I decided to play around in photoshop with some of my recent watercolors. Often I use photoshop to create my composite photographs, but today… Continue reading

  • Art opening, Film project preview and painted pears

    Today was a very art centered day for me. I started off the day with the Gallery Talk and opening of the Welcome to Detroit Show with the Grosse Pointe Artist Association. My whole family was able to attend with… Continue reading

  • Weird Dreams inspired today’s Art

    Occasionally I have a dream that features an artwork that my dream self created. Often they are quite strange. But sometimes I feel inspired by my crazy brain and try to recreate these dreamy artworks in my waking world. Last… Continue reading

  • March Palette Club Meeting

    This evening was our art club’s monthly meeting, and since we didn’t have an artist arranged to give us a demonstration, I came up with a fun art activity for us to do. I brought a variety of art supplies… Continue reading

  • One more painting for my grief series

    Today I felt inspired to create a third painting in my grief series. I entered the first of this series into a show, but I won’t find out until next Wednesday if it was accepted. This particular show is very… Continue reading

  • Abstract kind of day

    Today I was pondering what to paint and I was having trouble focusing my mind. So, I decided just to start painting and seeing what would emerge from my paper. I started with some green rectangles and the started to… Continue reading

  • Fun little landscape

    I felt inspired to paint a colorful loose landscape during this morning’s Zoom with June session. Being winter you’d think I’d be inspired to paint more wintery things, and while I’ve painted a few snowy scenes, I seem to be… Continue reading

  • Denim

    I wore my most comfortable jeans today. They are soft and faded and threadbare in spots. I probably should have retired them by now as they are beyond saving. But they are just so darn comfy. Contemplating my trousers fate… Continue reading

    Denim
  • Painting pain, painting in pain.

    I am on day three of a major headache, but there are things to do so I go on with my day as best I can. it got me thinking on how to visually convey the experience of pain. I… Continue reading

  • Big abstract bouquet

    I wasn’t sure what to paint when I sat down with my paper this evening so I just started doodling with the paintbrush and it evolved into a big bouquet of flowers. There ended up being quite a bit of… Continue reading