An Entrance to The Pagoda of Aesthetic Wandering

Summer's Fantastical Daydream (Mystic Garden)

Shades of Identity

This piece I had done the other day.  I was going to use as a companion image to the poem I had composed for Poetics, which I hosted tonight over at D'Verse.  But forgot to include it with that poem, and thought it still should be shown, so I'm putting it up here, where it'll get along just fine with the rest of my paintings.

Elixir (For Creative Tuesdays)

In just a short couple of days from now, The latest Creative Tuesdays will be upon us.  So, if you've been thinking about taking part in the festivities, please hop on over to Mr. Toast's creative co-op and read the guidelines and share your art based on the current theme, which, for this edition of Creative Tuesdays, it's Bottle.

For my piece this week I was going to draw a a bottle with a ship inside of it, but when I tried, I remembered it was a little above my current skill level.  I think the bottle looked ok, but the brown blurb inside looked nothing like a ship.  So, I thought, hmmm…and came up with an idea for some kind of ad campaign.  I started with an empty bottle on a white screen (didn't include it here), then I painted inside the bottle, was going to go with the lightning in a bottle theme, but I liked the way the aquamarine/teal blend looked too much to stray from it.  Then, as is seen in the first painting, I added a ferocious seascape to surround the bottle.  The next couple pieces I simply changed the color of the sea, layered them up together and used the old knife and went abstract on it, adding a variety of colors and found the ad I liked best. 

Looking forward to see how many bottles are on the CT wall this week.

Images From Forgotten Fields

An Unlikely Moment for Self-Discovery

A Molten Core (Violent Piano Vol. 1)

Captivating Space

The Abstract Battlefield I. (Introvert Distraction) and The Abstract Battlefield II. (Extrovert Deception)

Definition of Impact

In Descent (An Observation of One's Surroundings)

Floodgate

The Contents of the Box

Behind
Secured fence
Resides a box
Clearly unmeant to see

So many measures
Some men took
To keep its contents
Hidden deep

And what's within...

Wormhole

Solace Asunder

Altered by Design

Again I decided to toy around with color, and to see how a variety could alter perception.  I don't believe the colors altered this particular piece as much as I think they did on the last piece, but you do get to see how certain aspects of the piece are brought more to the forefront and I find it interesting how depending upon agenda one can highlight a particular area to make it standout more or do so seeking the opposite result as well.

For this piece I like the variety of interpretations one can get from this piece.  Each time I look at them something new pops to mind.  I've seen a microchip, a street map, glyphs, and a captured screen from a video game.  I'm sure the more I look at them the more images will come to mind.