We Are Much Alike, You & I Mutterings of the Muses: I started having conversations with the angels & devils in my paintings and I'm not sure I cared for what they had to say. I decided they needed to start talking to each other, instead of me. These two seem to create different back-stories … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #386 – We Are Much Alike, You & I
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #385 – I, Devil
I, Devil Mutterings of the Muses: From my spirits on paper collection, odd and whimsical figures rise from the paper. Listen close as they tell you strange and very tall tales. Believe at you own risk! A nice introduction to the Devils & Angels collection, don’t you think? Every one of these creatures is full … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #385 – I, Devil
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #384 – Angels & Devils – The Twins
Angels & Devils - The Twins Mutterings of the Muses: I'm not sure to what extent two imps conspiring, is more or less frightening, but they are amusing to wonder at. It would make a great sculpture. This series was another exploration of moods using basic colours. The basic forms of angel and devil lent … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #384 – Angels & Devils – The Twins
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #383 – Bliss Further Away From Pain
Bliss Further Away From Pain Mutterings of the Muses: I believe the spirits I see are sent to teach me about myself. Some lessons are simple, some complex, some obvious, and some less so. This one was the later for sure! In my notes on this painting I wrote about an imagined conversation with my … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #383 – Bliss Further Away From Pain
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #382 – Blues Singer
Blues Singer Mutterings of the Muses: In the smoky jazz clubs of my memory, I see ghosts of past singers and the etherial essences created by the desires of those who never sang on stage. Is this guy is enticing you to come on up and sing your heart out? Well, maybe, and maybe not. … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #382 – Blues Singer
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #381 – In For The Hug
In For The Hug Mutterings of the Muses: The mischievous spirits continue to stop in my path and engage my imagination. This one insists on giving me an irresistible hug. I can easily imagine him wandering around and hugging as many preoccupied folks as he can find. Always with his kind and mischievously innocent grin. … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #381 – In For The Hug
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #380 – Happy Walk
Happy Walk Mutterings of the Muses: What if this guy crossed your path? Even spirits are allowed to take happy walks. This must have been a very good day, or my sub-conscience was filled with gratitude for a series of similar sculptures I made years earlier. Either way, there could be no other title to … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #380 – Happy Walk
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #379 – Ol’ Groucho
Ol’ Groucho Mutterings of the Muses: It's odd what contributes to ones sense of humour. On occasion I am amazed to what extent the Marx Brothers are part of my everyday aesthetic vernacular. I quite certain the ghost of Groucho lives in some part of my head. Perhaps swimming in a duck soup, or surfacing … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #379 – Ol’ Groucho
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #378 – Greetings
Greetings Mutterings of the Muses: Imagine the image you perceive out of the corner of your eye, comes to stand in front of you and say... “Hi”. This whimsical character is the early version of We Are The Masks We Wear. Perhaps we start wearing our masks as infants when we are exploring the reactions … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #378 – Greetings
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #377 – We Are The Masks We Wear
We Are The Masks We Wear Mutterings of the Muses: In the seemingly endless search for ourselves, we sometimes find many masks to wear. We become those masks, for a time during our inner and outer searching for the self. An artist will wear many such masks in the development of his/her voice. Trying on … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #377 – We Are The Masks We Wear
The New Renaissance Mindset 