An artists’ brain is not, as you may have been led to believe, an enigma wrapped in a mystery tied up in a riddle. We just like to experiment. Well, I do , anyway.
My process begins with a theme or a thought. This one is based on “Avant-garde” and “The truest representation of self”.
Well, avant-garde is a french term meaning “forward look”. That the idea that doing things that haven’t been done yet is art in and of itself whether it’s complex and classically gorgeous, something that took effort, or something like the R. Mutt Urinal. Dude signed his name on a urinal, and it’s one of the most famous pieces of art…why? Because it is. I will not be doing that, I am attempting to convey an awakening, of sorts.
My process begins with a theme or a thought. This one is based on “Avant-garde” and “The truest representation of self”.
Well, avant-garde is a french term meaning “forward look”. That the idea that doing things that haven’t been done yet is art in and of itself whether it’s complex and classically gorgeous, something that took effort, or something like the R. Mutt Urinal. Dude signed his name on a urinal, and it’s one of the most famous pieces of art…why? Because it is. I will not be doing that, I am attempting to convey an awakening, of sorts.
My truest sense of self. I perceive myself as kind of like…this sounds so stupid…like an inactive volcano. There’s a lot of stuff going on – and free-flowing – just under the surface, which itself is fairly solid and unchanging. There’s my mood, which sets the tone for everything, there’s an kinetic freeway of thoughts on top of that, scored by random new information and bursts of energy and hiccups of inactvity. There are the peacemakers sprinkled on top, those thought and ideas and fancies that keep everything else in check, riding around on the currents and filling in where they’re needed most. And there’s a heatbeat on top of that, Making sure all this hustle-bustle continues every moment of every day.
Then there’s the world and influences and relationships and inventions and information and discoveries and all the things you choose to accept or ignore. I think the point of being alive is to grow from existence to awareness of not only the unknown and misunderstood world that surrounds you, but the understandind of that inner melee as well, The more you understand it the more of it that is revealed to you and the more of it that you can reveal to the world.
So yeah, I’m painting that.
The first choice is color. I feel emotions in color. Does anyone else do this? The second choice is application. Sideways or tall? Vertical or horizontal brushstrokes? (Cat: you do better vertical strokes, so if you are trying to convey grace and harmony and fluidity don’t try to do it sideways.) Finally there’s the final layer, which is usually a THING, as I don’t do abstract much because it usually looks like 80′s Hypercolor shit when I do. So. Here’s what I came up with. Which actually ends up making this post kinda obsolete, because it’s a different painting on a different canvas. That’s part of the process too. 
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