Who is this, Art? I don’t know, but he stops by everyday and bugs me until I do something creative. So much for social distancing, however!
It turns out it requires quite a bit of physical energy to do analogue art, and although I’ve started a new watercolour painting, the subject: A disgruntled Floridian pigeon, will sadly have to wait due to my current illness. I have instead, turned my attentions to creating digital art once again. I have a collection of apps that will convert photos into all sorts of awesome art effects, as you may remember when I was creating my simulated oil paintings. I like to be very experimental in my artistic efforts, so I have a lot of fun combining all the different effects and seeing what I come up with.
All I’m required to do is sit and push a mouse around. Not quite as energetic as mixing paints and pushing a brush about – oddly enough, and therefore better suited to my current predicament, especially as workable results are more quickly produced.
You may or may not remember my having done a little series of simulated ripped paper art a while back. All the pieces were autobiographical in some way. I’ve been listening to a lot of jazz lately, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and the like, and so my work has been influenced thusly. Each piece is a reflection of the moment’s mood and historical events, and listed in order of completion. Click on the gallery below to view in better detail:
I love creating these weird and wonderful pieces. There will always be a place in my heart for abstraction – it pairs quite nicely with distraction.
All nice but I like Machinations best.
Music is a wonderful source of inspiration.
During the writing of one book I became almost addicted to The Picnic Suite by Claude Bolling. I have the album on vinyl ( scratches and crackles included!) and it was the first thing I listened to every morning while I wrote.
I’m not sure who it drove more mad, me or the wife! Eventually I had to resort to headphones or run the risk of GBH!
Hope you current ”predicament” sorts itself out ”toot sweet”
Say Hi to Bill.
Doug
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Thanks, Doug. We have scrabble for that inspiration wherever we can get it, right? Although, listening to Thelonius Monk certainly produces a certain tenor of art, especially because I grew up playing his music on the piano – he was a tricky fellow! It’s hard to paint a whole story with one image. 🙂
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You play Scrabble? My own resident artist refuses to take me on, but she’s a demon at Yahtzee! I swear she’s in league with dark forces. In the meantime don’t just sit there, get well!
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I do play Scrabble, yes. I used to play Yahtzee, many years ago though. Sounds like Mrs. Argus is keeping you on your toes!
And thank you for the good wishes. Fingers crossed I’m on the mend finally.
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Fingers crossed, claws crossed, and even tied a knot in me tail … short of biting some innocent, that’s about all I can do; but if ever I win at The Game I’ll dedicate same to you. Boom boom!
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Aw, bless you, Argus. I appreciate your kindness, muchly. 🙂
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