The Colors And Textures of Imagination

"Abstraction allows man to see with his mind 

what he cannot physically see with his eyes... 

Abstract art enables the artist 

to perceive beyond the tangible, 

to extract the infinite out of the finite. 

It is the emancipation of the mind."

~ Arshile Gorky

"Before" and "After" photos from my newest video.

Set Energy in Motion

 "As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life." 

~ John Lubbock

Learning Patience

"Artistry is an innate distrust of the theory of

reality concocted by the five senses." 

~ Robert Brault

The Successful Artist

See more "Before" and "After" photos

in my newest video.

 "Art is your emotions flowing

in a river of imagination."

~ Devin

Keep on rollin', rollin' on a river,

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Everything Connected With Autumn

"Over everything connected with autumn 

there lingers some golden spell - 

some unseen influence 

that penetrates the soul  with

its mysterious power."

See Sandy's Abstracts in Room Settings here.

Some Golden Spell

 "Poets and artists who speak
of the mystery are rare."
~ Joseph Cambell

Embrace the mysteries of life,

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Mysterious Entity

"We all move on the fringes of eternity and  are

 sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. 

Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. 

There are certain times, when, as on the 

whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet

realization that there is indeed a presence in the 

world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman."

~ Ansel Adams

September 2015 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day Twenty-seven

See Sandy's Abstracts in Room Settings here.

"The job of the artist is to always deepen the mystery."

~ Francis Bacon

See Whirling Whisper here

See framed prints of this painting here.

Prints of this painting in different orientations are available here.

"A painting requires a little mystery,

some vagueness, some fantasy.

When you always make

your meaning perfectly plain,

you end up boring people."
~ Edgar Degas

"Poets and artists who speak
of the mystery are rare."
~ Joseph Cambell

Embrace the mysteries of life,

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Like A Gardener

"My kind of composing is more
like the work of a gardener. 
The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them,
knowing what he is planting but not quite
what will grow where and when;

and he won't necessarily be able to
reproduce it again afterwards either."

~ Brian Eno

September 2015 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day Twenty-six

"One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting." 

~ Robert Genn

See  Scattering Seeds here

See this piece framed.

Prints of this painting in different orientations are available here.

"The relationships of shape, texture, and color

all contribute to the creative action that

gradually becomes the expressive concept."

~ Marilyn Hughey Phillis

"Composition is the gravity that holds a painting together."
 ~ Frank Webb

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Faith Set Afire

"Enthusiasm is a kind of faith 
that has been set afire." 
~ George Matthew Adams

September 2015 - 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day Twenty-five

"Enthusiasm is not an emotional state.
It is a spiritual commitment,
a loving surrender to our creative process.
Enthusiasm - from the Greek, 'filled with God' - 
it is an ongoing energy supply tapped into
the flow of life itself."

~ Julia Cameron

See Rouged Rhapsody here

See Rouged Rhapsody framed.

Prints of this painting in different orientations are available here.

"Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... 

it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be

more conscious of feelings that we might previously

have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly."

~ Alain de Botton

"Nothing is so contagious
as enthusiasm."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Whatever your plans for the day, do it with enthusiasm!

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