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 […]
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 […]