So I discovered that I was posting to the wrong page. Evidently I somehow have another WordPress site that is sharedvisionsart.wordress.com or some such. Not sure why or how.

Yesterdays piece was not completed, though you can certainly see where it was going and how it would end up. Todays piece was also not completed ( too many extraneous HAVE to’s). It’s obvious this one was “done on the fly”. I will definitely post the finalized version of this, since it is NOT as obvious how it might end up.

These are 3 more abstracts that I did the day before yesterday. I used the good old “salt technique” for one of them. I often use 3 different types of salt – kosher, regular, and popcorn. Their different size crystals create more variety in the effect. I happen to love texture, so this is one of my favorite techniques. Like most things you can over do it. My favorite of these is “We Can See Eye to Eye”. The composition turned out better than I thought it was going to, unlike “Go with the Glow”. I did, however, enjoy the process while painting it. I made a point of using my watercolor brushes the way I would use a Sumi-e brush. It was very meditative.

These are 3 more abstracts that I did the day before yesterday. I used the good old “salt technique” for one of them. I often use 3 different types of salt – kosher, regular, and popcorn. Their different size crystals create more variety in the effect. I happen to love texture, so this is one of my favorite techniques. Like most things you can over do it. My favorite of these is “We Can See Eye to Eye”. The composition turned out better than I thought it was going to, unlike “Go with the Flow”. I did, however, enjoy the process while painting it. I made a point of using my watercolor brushes the way I would use a Sumi-e brush. It was very meditative.

It’s not that I haven’t been doing art. I’ve just been doing more mixed media than painting. I miss watercolor painting in particular. So, in an effort to make it “more accessible” to me, I’ve recently spent hours, days, months going through the photos on my laptop. Now, you have to understand I have thousands of photos. In the cloud there are over 45,000. I’m not certain if all those are on my laptop (that’s the next step…way down the road). Over the past 10 years I haven’t been as organized as I use to be. I use to immediately Title any pictures I took and put them in an appropriately labelled folder. 

Here’s my standard organizational chart (feel free to steal it):

Abstract

Buildings

Cats

Fauna

Flora

People

Places

Scapes

Still

Life

Things 

Most importantly I’ve made a folder called Paintings 2B. Since it’s been so long since I picked up a watercolor brush, I started with some abstracts.

So some how my last three post weren’t actually posted to my current website. Here is one from April:

This isn’t the prettiest piece, but I’ve always liked it. It’s called “Don’t Be So Negative”. That mostly comes from the fact that I worked on making sure my focal point would contain negative space. Say Goodbye! This is being disassemble. I will reuse the substrate and some of the bits within it. No one can keep EVERYTHING they create. Sometimes the decision to destroy is easier than others.