Sadness [more]

Working more on Sadness... getting pretty close to being done with it.

#108 2012-04-14 Sadness

Sadness

I started painting a picture of Nick, Mollie & Ben but wasn't happy with how it was turning out, so I painted over it.  As I was painting over it I liked the pattern that was emerging, so went with that flow.  It was turning into a brooding stormy sky.  It reminded me of a picture that I had taken of my grandson back in late December right before leaving to go back home. He had such a look of sadness in his face, in his body language.  He was heading off to school, and grandpa was leaving...

Here is an out-of-focus photo of the current work in progress.

Easter

I tried to paint an Easter painting last year.  It ended up being a psycho bunny with peep.  I'll upload it someday.  This year I started out painting another Easter bunny painting, but it went a different direction as I was laying down the paint.  I love where it went.  Here's an out of focus capture of it.

#105 - 2012/04/08 - Easter

Rainbow

What makes a rainbow beautiful? It's all the colors in the rainbow, the almost equal bands of different colors. If all the colors blended together, it wouldn't be pretty. If one color was more dominant, it wouldn't be as pretty either. What if purple was constantly bad mouthing green? What if blue was fighting for a more prominent position. If you don't understand what I'm saying, that's ok, you are still one of those colors, with an equal position.

Lucid Dreams

Every now and then I have a lucid dream.  This morning I had one.

I was driving through a part of Virginia where there are big mountains.  It was an area that was being mined for coal. There were large machines that were just straight cutting vertically down the mountain.  Reclamation areas were being built as apartments that looked liked big city skyscraper Project Housing along the mountain faces that had been stripped of the coal.

As I was being driven, we approached a tunnel.   There was an open stairway going up the side of the Project Housing, with lots of people milling around. On the landings, people were wrestling.

When we came out of the tunnel on the other side, the vehicle was no longer on a road but flying through the air.  The Project Housing was the same on this side, but now we were many thousand feet above the ground below, in fact the ground was just haze far away.  On this side people where wrestling on the landings also, and I saw a man fall over the side, people reached for him and grabbed him, but then they fell as well, so more people grabbed them.

There were many Project Housing buildings.  Along all the landings the same scene.  People wrestling.  People falling, being grabbed, falling, grabbed, people at the bottom of the human chain scrambling back up to the landing.  Some areas where big swarms of this activity happening very quickly.

Only once did I see them not able to successfully grab the leg of a person falling.  He fell, apparently to his death.

I woke up.

The scenes were complicated, but maybe I could, should, paint some of it before it fades away.

Scans

Took in 13 pictures today to get scanned.  A few of them I don't really like but they are what they are.  Supposed to pick them up in two weeks.

Later in the day I noticed that I hadn't brought in Clown, so when I go to pick up the paintings, I guess I'll be dropping off more to be scanned.

I haven't scanned in any of the children template paintings.  Perhaps I'll try doing those myself.  The problem is, I really like having the canvas proofs.  Imagine making a booklet with them at some point.

April Foole

One of the stories about the origin of April Fool's Day has to do with a girl named April Foole.  When Kathy was telling me the story, this is the image that popped into my head (slightly different background, but I now like this background best).