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".