Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond | Cats and Dogs
I thought I would lighten up things a bit and post: Beyond | Cats and Dogs … Featuring from foreground to background … Thai-G, Lucy, Angel, and Little Baby. There is one other cat in the home not pictured, named Black and White.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond | Inner Space
Sometimes going “Beyond” is a reflection of who we are, and what we can discover about ourselves, when we take that important step inward to our quiet, inner, space.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond | Horizons
The Horizon. A view just beyond. We follow it to our dreams and aspirations. It gives us a place of peace. And projects meaning into our lives.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond | Design
Beyond imagination, are the creative designs in which we can find ourselves.
This theme is energetic, bold and fluid. A design onto itself.
Holding You
Your soft breathing
and beating heart
caresses my sadness
and brings peace to my longing
– There is a moment when the reality of life, in all its complexity, is simplified by one gesture … holding you.
For You
an evolving mystery
with piercing perspectives
and perplexed frailty
a continuum without end
now we are all dreaming
with the starlight in our eyes
on your final day
for you
Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures | Art
This week’s photo challenge is coming to an end. I thought I would include a few more images I created in 2012.
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | We Can’t Sleep in Complete Darkness all the Time | With Mark Rothko
If there is something to be discovered, it is here in the waking. Seeing things as they really are. Leaving the objects of reality behind. And realizing we can’t sleep in complete darkness all the time.
“I think of my pictures as dramas, the shapes in the pictures are the performers. They have been created from the need for a group of actors who are to move dramatically without embarrassment and execute gestures without shame.” ~ Mark Rothko
This is definitely my last post of 2012 🙂
Peace and Light my friends.
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | When Fainting with Mark Rothko
A searing moment. Trying to define what has occurred. You saw the painting and felt something awaken. Now it fades as you faint into the light. And only a dream awaits.
“The most important tool for the artist fashions through constant practice is faith in his ability to produce miracles when they are needed. Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended. He is an outsider. The picture must be for him, as for anyone experiencing it later, a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.” ~ Mark Rothko
This will be my last posting of 2012 (US Eastern time zone). See you … in your thoughts, in 2013.
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | Emerging Colors with Mark Rothko
This piece is heavily influence by the work of Mark Rothko.
The imagination is found inside the events of the day; forming various associations and perspectives in which to see things in a new light. Emerging with experimentation and discovery, the viewer is free to find what is hidden.
Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 In Pictures | Places and ART
Savannah GA
Eastern Shore MD
Virginia Beach VA
Blue Ridge Mountains NC
Greenville SC
Tybee Island GA
Portrait of my Daughter Lady
We Say Good-Bye To Ourselves
The Silence Series: Chakra Colors For Meditation | ANAHATA (Green)
Everywhere I Looked the City Hosted the Old-Timey Bikes
A Tribute to the Family (A Full of Grace Remix)
Across the River the City that Sleeps with Dreams
Until You I Didn’t Feel Quite Finished
So many beautiful places and art to reflect on life in 2012.
Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 In Pictures | Grandchildren and Family
What a wonderful photo challenge this is to close out the year 2012. Highlights and special moments captured on film. This past Thanksgiving I was surrounded by loved ones. There were grandkids, my girlfriend, family, friends and the memory of my daughter Lady. My sister Patricia and her boyfriend Elbert, served dinner and were our hosts for a magnificent celebration of family. It was a rose of a day. Colorful, warm and joyous.
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | Fading Light with Mark Rothko
Today I had the pleasure of attending a Mark Rothko exhibit at the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina. The exhibit was entitled The Decisive Decade | 1940’s. The work was an exploration of his association with myth, and dreams leading up to his more prominent work in abstraction. It was a very informative exhibit. I was fortunate to have seen, years ago, an exhibit of his more well-known work from the 1950’s and beyond at a Philadelphia Museum of Art retrospective. I really like his work, as I do most of the abstract artists of that period. While viewing the exhibit at its conclusion, I felt inspired to perhaps again, start doing some large-scale painting. Something I have neglected to do over the years. His work in abstract painting, as he described it, was to fill his sense of deprivation. Deprivation was the central motivation for his abstract work. Hard to explain, but only the abstract could fill the mystical union of the unconscious and the formality of the outer world. Forming an entity unto itself in abstract terms. As I sat there and pondered the use of this medium and style of painting, I suddenly wanted to find the simplicity to express with my hands–outside the box of the computer. Simplicity being the center of this revelation. Bold flat colors, simple geometric forms in which to speak directly to the viewer. A contrast to my digital work perhaps. Which leads me to this piece “Fading Light with Mark Rothko”. It is a combination of the two worlds. Digital and painting. I often find myself pursuing visually an image of multiple themes and layers; ideas built around my personal experiences. One thing I discovered in this exhibit, was Rothko’s desire. A desire, in his pursuit of the abstract, to leave his personal interpretation behind, allowing the viewer to incorporate their own consciousness into the work. Again in this piece, I am searching for a more direct expression.
As part of this Post Canvas and Paint: Variations series, I will periodically be attempting to post a piece that leans toward a simple form of visual composition. I also will be using these posts as a place to experiment with the various Adobe Photoshop tools. Remember … “Nothing is ever collected in one moment”.
a holiday moment | snow and mountain
Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season …
Peace
Love
And Good Will
Namaste
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | Light and Dark
Well for the last several months, all of the art I’ve been posting has been created using a Samsung phone and the PicsArt app. In some instances, I combined older digital work, with newly created pieces. It was a challenge to work in such a small environment. But I must say, it did feel like I was walking around with a sophisticated notepad and colored pencils. Now I am happy to say that I am now sitting in front of my new Windows 8 desktop. Big screen. More processing power. And although I am now using the pre-installed Adobe Photo Elements instead of my more familiar Corel Photo Paint Pro, I am happy to have considerably more freedom to create art and the capability to write with more depth and length. I have always used Corel over Adobe, so this will be a learning curve. Here is my first entry using the Adobe software. I will be experimenting and posting the results.
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | A New Morning
a new morning
with colors of possibilities
what will I find
that will bring me
peace of mind
lost just over the horizon
are the wishful memories
and waking realities
– life is
what life is
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | A Barren Autopsy
a barren autopsy
of ourselves;
the lack of compassion
for a deep sense of lost
and stolen innocence
what do we see
when we look in the mirror
on cold December nights
but the tears of children
falling from our eyes …
As a society we are becoming numb to reason. And as a consequence, we may one day lose our humanity.
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | Last Train To The Beach
years ago
it felt like yesterday
the last train to the beach
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | A Circular Response
all too often
life brings us full circle
with a response too late
This is an exceptional piece written by Dosia Mckay for clarinet and piano. It is entitled: Two Moods for Clarinet and Piano
I would like to share with you a video of a recent performance by Steve Loew and Daniel Weiser in a house concert in Arden, NC where they presented my Two Moods for Clarinet and Piano. The first movement, Haunted, illustrates an eerie, suspenseful feeling, intertwined with passages of sheer panic and terror. Here I wanted to recall and confront my childhood fear of being left alone in the dark.
Score and parts are available for purchase here.
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | Last Train
The night was falling
into a distant rumble;
churning and grinding
like tearful strokes
dreaming in memories;
the sound
and the acid smell of diesel
eating away this very moment
our every gesture of things promised
Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate | Fading Roses
Beauty, in all its delicacy fades and re-emerges.
Post Canvas and Paint: Variations | A Simple Place To Rest
here on this sacred ground
bathed in the light of life
a simple place to rest
n e w d i g i t a l s c a p e s 