I walked into the studio to work on sketching Sunset #13 Palms, and I found this: The painting already starts with palm trees in silhouette, but maybe there is another painting in this, taller and narrower, more along the lines of a Chinese brush painting. Which I found through stumbled-upon… This is from
Xmind is a mind-mapping software I found through a serendipitous train of thought and action. I was working through Ariane Goodwin’s Writing the Artist Statement. She talks about clustering or mind-mapping as loading your right brain – or left brain. I can’t remember which – I am left-handed and right/left don’t work for me without [...]
I’ve been thinking about the process of painting. I’m defining the sunset series, refining the words that describe why sunsets and where that comes from. I’m also looking for the words to explain and express and place myself as an artist. Creativity is a balance, a choosing of alternate paths of action [...]