2022 begins soon

Do not “Dig a Pony”

Watching “Get Back” (Peter Jackson) was such a pleasure. I never knew what “Dig A Pony” meant until I looked it up just now. Kinda sorry to know now. John Lennon didn’t seeeeeem like an addict to me. Most likely because that was information kept from the public, and I was a little too young to understand what was happening with the Beatles in the sixties. Nothing is kept from the public anymore, right? And, we all get to decide what is truth and what is fiction because everyone is afraid of everyone else?

But I digress.

Getting back to painting after the holidays I see I should have considered what I may have learned from those yellow paintings. Those yellow paint-outs were potentially going somewhere, don’t you think? I lost the creative threads of that yellow painting experience. I tried to keep reminding myself of what was good about those little 10”x10” paintings. I enjoyed doing them, they were small and came together quickly.

I wanted to do another similar painting in a different colors, not yellow but pink. A painting-out of a green background I considered. How hard could that be? I made the green/blue background weeks ago - as a study for a bigger painting (2’x3’). That was actually not bad, the green/blue, but it wasn’t a painting. Well, maybe what I choose paint out should be a painting because that green background did NOT inspire me to paint more, it inspired me to “counter” the green with pinks - because that (painting out) would be enough to make it into a painting. Blechhh… and then it became a major pink paint-out that was painstakingly slow and looks awful. Needs yellow? just kidding.

Now I’m going back to an interim 10”x10” that I don’t like, but at least it has some decent shapes?

My next goal, using a similar abstract style, is to have a subject drive the color and the brush strokes. Music, it’ll be about music. More transparency, much more. So, “stay tuned”.

The Abstraction of What

Start anywhere, start somewhere …paint over paint over paint out and explore.

I think I want a point of reference which is not apparent here. These are “doodlings “ using paint, in concert with PhotoShop and all the limitations of my own handwriting/brushstrokes.

I have color habits, regardless of color complements, intensities, shapes and size variations of the presence of color.

Everything I have in my shallow basket of skills needs a jolt.

The drawn out pandemic makes a person like me sleepy and then suddenly an extrovert - a manic rhythm. Will we be thanking the un-vaccinated 10 years from now? For what? Are they holding out against the pharmaceutical industry, and playing with Death (their own and others) just because they can? Or will 1/2 of the current population be dead 10 years from now and the rest of us be naturally immune? Which half? Which third? How many are left in the world right now?

The US isn’t really studying how or where this virus is changing? Is that TRUE? Please don’t make me join a conspiracy theory.

I have fortunately stock piled a lot of paint and several canvases. And objects, magazines and scraps of interesting paper and fabric. If I run out of materials I will paint over the old paintings and objects.