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 […]
Sometime in 2017 I decided that I was allowed to “make art” . . . whatever that means. I’ve always had this fascination with Abstract Art and really just wanted to make my own paintings. Now that I think about it, I like to make my own everything. The outsiders view of abstract painting is […]
Today wraps up the 13 week generative art series. When we started the series I wasn’t quite sure where it would take us or what would come out of it. I was initially concerned that I might run out of images, but I ended up with many more ideas than I needed. It’s natural to […]
Lately I’ve been thinking about clarity of purpose and the role of writing in developing that purpose. Sometime in the past couple of years I started daily journaling. Initially, the ideas were pretty messy. Over time they started to get clearer. Late last year I expanded my daily journaling to include writing out goals. It […]
I’m short on time so today is an abbreviated, image and links only post with a quote. This feels like it sums up the week: “My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as […]