I’ve been photographing the spring blooms. They are just a starting point for my paintings. I did this painting two years ago, but the azaleas look similar every year. A painting is 
an effort to recognize a moment in the passage.
Tangled Web
This painting if of a Cereus, an outrageous red bloom. A flower that is about 8 inches across. I may not have captured the light coming through the leaves, but I did show
a human imposition on nature, the grid pattern. This painting is currently on display at Art On Depot. The tangled web was that my website was down last night as Lunar Pages had technical difficulties. We can ignore nature and our environment, but when it doesn’t work, we will be scrambling.
Gallery Support
Thanks to Cathey Bolton, owner of Art on Depot, who represents me. We popped into the gallery today because Donna, Gregg’s mom was visiting. She believes it is the best gallery in Waynesville, and I agree! Cathey made my day by asking to buy this painting of mine! We are hoping for a good season of art sales through her gallery!
What is real?
We are surrounded by images, many of them electronic. Do you stop and think about the story that a picture is telling? Take time to ask what is real.
Globally
Woodpeckers are all over the world, but near trees with bugs, not cities with concrete. Where do paintings exist?
Senses
What happens when you ignore your senses? Instead of watching an electronic device, use your sense of sight to look around you. What is going on in nature around you? More trees, or less? Other senses. Is your environment quieter and peaceful, or noisier and more stressful. Can you affect anything?
New work at Art on Depot
This painting of a sunflower just went to Art on Depot. See it tomorrow night during Art after dark. The painting is acrylic on paper, and NOT framed, which makes it affordable, and you pick the framing!
Reason women make lousy artists?
I pulled this quote off of an article about education. The author is named at the end. Damn, if I’d known this, I could have gone into voc-ed, saved myself a lot of time and money.
“No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world’s great philosophical traditions,” he wrote. “Women have produced a smaller number of important visual artists, and none that is clearly in the first rank. No female composer is even close to the first rank. Social restrictions undoubtedly damped down women’s contributions in all of the arts, but the pattern of accomplishment that did break through is strikingly consistent with what we know about the respective strengths of male and female cognitive repertoires.”
Murray’s 2008 book that Abbott cites, Real Education, argues that students with lower IQ’s are not as educable as smarter children
Scrutinize
I was working on this along with Searching. Scrutiny is a synonym of the word search, and this Eye Wonder is in the same theme.
Searching
The news is filled with people searching for missing loved ones. I don’t want to imagine what they are going through. I am continuing on the Eye Wonder series, and this one is influenced by the uncertainties of searching.