The time is getting close

October is just one day away and The fall will be very busy for us. Our new apartment is finished, We will get the keys within a few days after we sign more papers and the inspection is approved. Talk about abstracts . Then comes moving day. In between all this I need to vote and fax in my absentee ballot. There's light fixtures buy, a frig. to buy  and a multitude of other small things to buy, Items to get turned off and others turned on, I think you get the idea. All this before the end of Oct. But I still want to keep painting! Well, as Laurie tells me "Take a deep breath, it will all work out" OK then I'll post my latest painting which I called "Red Dog".  A dog sniffing around this mechanical thing. as dogs will do, just before peeing on it and walking away.

Pyramid Scroll

Abstract painting 20x16 inches. Had fun creating this painting because I had no idea what I wanted to paint. I let the design take me and before long I could see how to complete the work. 

Blood Spill

This painting is called Blood Spill. I did the painting to show all the anguish and blood that is being spilled throughout the world. Thus the name. 20x20 digital painting & pencil sketch. 

A quote by Picasso...

This quote is so relevant to today's world where some feel that life is cheap, and power is everything.

“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.”

Pablo Picasso

 

Looks Like Rain

It's even raining in Lima Peru. Well the weather people called it a light Drizzle. But I know it's raining in New Orleans today. So I took a weather map and turned it into an abstract and called it "Looks Like Rain". 12x12 digital painting.

Sky Valla

This is one of my latest Digital Abstract Paintings I called Sky Villa. As with almost all my abstracts, I start out with an idea and it turns into something else. That's alright though because the painting takes me along rather then the other way around. Then when I step  back and take a good look at my work, if I like what I see I take a closer look and there are shapes and features that I didn't know I did. How abstract can a person get? But it's true.

The Olympic Torch

I watched on TV the carrying of the Olympic torch yesterday for the beginning of the "Games" .

This morning I got up with wanting to do an abstract of The Olympic Torch. It's 12x18 inches digital painting.

As the month of July edges closer to August our new home gets closer to completion. Haven't been able to see the inside of our apartment since it's on the ninth floor and the elevators are not installed yet and I'm not going to climb up 9 floors, so we look at our balcony from the street. This gave me an idea for a painting  . This was one of the times that I got an idea for a painting instead of just starting and see where it takes me. I call it "First Light". (from our balcony to be)

I was experimenting with my digital painting program. Trying different ways to match what I have done with my airbrush and pallet knife. I was very happy with how the painting turned out.

I call it Dawn of Life 
Size 14x14 inches 

Now, what next? My mind is working in the background already.

     Dawn of Life...............

Up late

I started this post late on Tues the 13th and hope to finish it early Wed, A lot of our friends are traveling right now so there's not a lot of action going on for us in Lima, so I busy myself by painting.



Here is one of  Pablo Picasso's quotes that I like. 

“The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”

Pablo Picasso 

I feel the same way and my painting my not make sense to others but I really enjoy the freedom that Abstract painting gives me. It's shape, color, balance, the feeling one gets from looking at nature in the wild.

Saturday

I just can't get over Saturday's as being the day for house things. Now that I'm retired all the days are the same, except Sunday. And if you go to church on Sunday it is another day. But, we are so locked into a way of living that it's hard to change the cycle. Though I create paintings any day of the week that I want. The one I'm showing today I finished yesterday, what ever day that was.   I called it "Hunger". 

The Wave

The Wave

In my mind I saw a wave in the ocean and so I began to do a digital painting. This painting was fun and interesting. The wave turned out to have the movement I was looking for. I guess water and waves are real abstracts. It is also on Facebook, and Fine Art America. The size was painted as 14x14in. Although the resolution is good enough to reproduce it at a much larger size. 300 dpi

Color in the calendar

A few months ago I featured the Mayan Calendar. Then the other day I thought it would be nice to add color to this very old carved stone. Who knows maybe it was in color when it was new.

The most interesting part of the object is the fact that it has foretold the end of time to come in 2012. Well so far all is well. But, the Mayans were very serious about their study of the stars and the moon, so we will just wait for December 31, 2012 and ringing in of a new year 2013. Time will tell.  People have proclaimed the end of t;he earth over and over and the earth is still whirling around the sun. It's a vast universe out there and planets have come gone. The universe is a very violent place but because of the size is so vast we never notice the death of a star and planets that orbited. The gods keep throwing rocks at us and maybe one day one rock will get through and BANG. 
 

Geometriclly Sound

There is a lot of geometric forms in this painting thus the title of this painting.
The sound could be the flow coming forth from the blue rectangle opening.
I guess you have to hear with your eyes in this case. A loud sound like a jet plane makes at take off. The rest of the piece is rather organic. There is tension between organic and rectangular aspects which holds it all together. 
The size of the Digital painting is 18inHigh x 24inWide. The resolution is at 300bpi

Campfire

This Painting is called Campfire and thus the color of the type. I used one of my other painting in creating Campfire. This digital painting is great what you can do. I have to get one of the digital painting printed and stretched on canvas. 

Breakout

It;s after mid-night but I wanted to post another painting I just finished about an hour ago.The title is "Breakout".  

Posting again...

Both Laurie and I have not been keeping our blogs current, so I will start again. Here is another quote by "Pablo Picasso". 

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”

Pablo Picasso 

By the Sea

Picasso was right and I have been working, so I will post a few of my latest digital paintings. 

With the digital program I use I can paint as though I were painting with my airbrush, or regular brushes, on canvas. From the digital file I can output the painting on canvas. The wonders of the electronic age. The only thing I can't do with digital painting is dropping paint on my shoes. 

Carnival Dancers

Image

Wed.

Did another digital painting "Elements". Now I have to send Laurie a e-card for her birthday tomorrow.

Getting back to my art work

Moving on....

My Birthday over and coming up soon is Uncle Nello's Feb 1st (98). Then Laurie on Feb. 9th. The year  is moving along at a fast pace, so it seems. 2012 the year of the Dragon, elections, and who knows what. I really hope the wars are winding down, and economy starts winding up so the  dollar increases in value and our health's are good. 
Our health is most important. I have to continue my painting. I get a lot of enjoyment in creating paintings. Well we're moving on into 2012, the year that the Maya's foretold will be the end. I don't think so, but here we are at the threshold of 2012 and all I can say is "So far so good." 

January 22, 2012

I made it to another anniversary of my birth, and it's not "he would have been 78" I AM 78! Wow, it's been a long journey and I am looking forward to a continued stay on planet earth. I did another abstract digital painting since my last posting. I do enjoy painting with this new software artrage.