Test of the Double

I really like the double exposure or fade into another sky idea.  I think this might be the last we see of the Candy Land paths for a bit.  I am still working between a foliage  idea or a rabbit dinosaur town scene.

Two Looks at Nothing

Come on!  This has to be nearer to something!

Cloud Landscape

Despite that this painting sort of looks like a lower case “a” I think it turned out pretty good.  It really captures a good kind of motion, and sort of looks like things I like.

Short list of things I like that this painting resembles:
1. The clouds vs. continents angle I have spoken of before
2. The path from Candyland
3. A science book illustration
4. Plate tectonics diagram
5. A map

For those interested I would like to call attention to the erasing.  I like the erasing because it suggest refinement, in the sense of a rock tumbler.  I think it is pretty cool to erase and redraw, erase and redraw until you get it right or you give up.  I also think the rock tumble analogy works well for my thinking.  For example; how do you know when a rock is properly tumbled?  or how do you know when to stop dusting?
Its sort of fantastic.

Change of Activity

“Why not think with your knee cap?”
-Joseph Beuys (Not a direct quote, but I am pretty sure he said something like this.)
For the past two months I have stopped my running program for the winter and have taken up swimming.  I have been running for the past eight years and this has been quite a change.  It is quite a different experience moving through pool water than it is moving through a landscape, and I can’t help but wonder how this is affecting my painting.  Spacial relationships in a pool are completely different.  In running, space is mostly understood in terms of distance, while in the water filled pool the relationship to space is much different.  There is a much greater interaction with up and down, and everything is much closer.

While it is not a particularly well articulated or strongly held belief, I do feel that our physical activities influence the types of thoughts we are able to think.  So much brain activity is focused on interpreting a reacting to physical stimuli that it seems changing the way you interact with space would change you ability to think about space.

Exit Via Crush

Merry Christmas everyone.

Not the Greatest of Finishes

There are some nice parts to this painting, but overall not a whole lot to hang on to.  It did give me some things to think about though.  I think I am going to stretch four quarter sheets and see if these new ideas can hold up on a more forgiving scale.
But first I will finish this apple.

Hands Down the Best Smelling thing In Transparent Watercolor

Is there anything Rose Madder can’t do?

No, there is not.

Thanksgiving Break(through/down)

Most of this happened shortly before and shortly after Thanksgiving, but this truth did not lend itself to a blog title.  I apologize for the shadow, but make no concessions for the progress.

Bad Cloud Topography

Oh why won’t you work like I think you should!

Empty Something

Looking outside, I think I need to introduce a little more natural space in these.