One of the things I know with certainty is that I’m good at habits. Every morning I wake up before 4 and spend 45 minutes to an hour painting. Habit usually makes it easier to move forward because you have momentum in some direction. However, sometimes efforts stall out and you need to find a […]
Another hard edge abstract painting video is up on YouTube. I started painting using small pieces of pine for simple abstracts. Eventually I moved to Birch plywood because it’s less sappy and the results are much cleaner. Check out the video below to see what that process looks like. Note that this is a video […]
I spend a lot of time visualizing what I want. What does my future self look like? What is the reality I want to create? Knowing those things, what would I be doing today. I kept coming back to one realization. I want to larger. When I started painting I was painting on small 5.5″ […]
Okay, it’s time. For the the past year I’ve had the goal of beginning to share painting videos. Part one was recording myself painting and that was pretty simple. The harder part came when I had to organize numerous clips into something coherent. The video below shows the process for painting a hard edge abstract […]
Have you ever tried to pursue something you really want? Did that come easily? I’ve noticed that it’s harder to pursue things I really want than things I don’t genuinely want. I could make a list of contributing Psychological events from my childhood, but I won’t. This month I started reading a book called Happy […]
Last month I talked about having greater clarity. Greater clarity is necessary, but it’s also complicated. As soon as I have clarity about something, my natural tendency is to begin worrying about the future. I start thinking about how everything needs to fit into some grand vision. Initially that vision can seem exciting, but it’s […]
I like using Generative art to iterate quickly. I don’t always know how colors and shapes will look together and through the use of randomness with a predefined palette I can quickly see how colors and themes feel. Changing out colors is as simple as refreshing the random number generator and that allows us to […]
Welcome, this is the first monthly newsletter. Going forward these will arrive sometime in the first week or so of the month. The newsletter is a way for me to share what I’m thinking about, working on, and working towards. Today, we’re going to talk about clarity. Little Pieces of Clarity If you’ve read my […]
Great news, I’ve finally been able to make my Abstract Ocean images available as prints. As a refresher, these images begin with a beach photograph. I take the photograph and sort the colors to create the images you see below. I tested out a few Print on Demand (POD) companies to fulfill prints and have […]
One of the things I’ve noticed about creative endeavors is that you never know where an idea will lead you. All you can do is take a first step in one direction and then something else becomes clear. From there another step becomes clear and you keep moving. In my experience, there’s no way to […]