ZEN PAINTING 2 - COLORSTORM

 

ON HAVING NOI HEAD

I often, as a lot of us do, escape into a personal world of depression, self-loathing, and distrust of my own process. Art is, as art does, and I lnow I should let it flow but sometimes, I want to be intelledtual and I'm not very good at it, so if these pensiuve moments provide amusement, I'm too dense to care.

I am fascinated by Zen thought and my titltle is taken from a book of the same name I once read. The preimise was that we have no head becsuse we are on th ineie looking out. Well, we lopk in a mirrror and we find a ontradiction. Cocteau felt, as I read him at one oint, that mirrors were an entrance into an alternate reality and not a reflection of the real world.

Now I'm back into the flow. I seek the directnes of color and the beastish apporoach of the Fauvist, and then I seek the lost language that would lead me tto personal truuth. If you want a truthful approach to this, read Artmixter anytime.

while I slither and gyre, she goes to the heart. I follow and listen and things become right again.

I may or may not have a head, but I do have a heart. Now to reconnect to it.

ZEN PAINTING 1 - DIGITAL DHARMA

 

Nebula Blossoms

 

Fkame Fractaks

I've been playing with Flame Fractals recently using aewonderffrulo program that is free called Apophysis 2.02 the first image is the fractsl as it comes directly from the generating program, the sedond is the fradal after I played with it awhile in PSP and the third is a final digital print create4d by using various techniques, including overlapiping the original image and the generated images. I'm using these images as a basis for\ embroidery and quilts and experientation. I'm keeping a sketchbook and I'll publish some of those pages later probably on Digital Technic

Revelation

This small photo of a cliff dwelling in southern Colorado USA is the source photo for all the kimono designs. shwn over the lst few days. 

kimono 5

 

 

KIMONO 3 - EDO

 

Kimono 2 - Homage to Kubota

Just to show

After doing several tutorials om using the painting engine, I can now paint realistic flowers without a photo background. In other words, these were paainted from scrath. sp rather than reinvent tghe wheel, I'll feature tutorial links on the digital blog. http://learndigitaltech.blogspot.com/

KIMONO - A REVIVAL PIECE

 

Cliff Dwellings - A Revival piece

REVIVAL

rhus us an early piece done 5 or 6 years ago based on a photo taken in Venice.

FAUVIST LANDSLIDE

Fauvist Shrubbery