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Chasing the Sun II

9/27/2017

 
PictureChasing the Sun III, 9 x 12, encaustic with collage elements
The days are getting shorter.  
​Definitely thinking about 
Chasing the Sun​ now.

PictureChasing the Sun II, 14 x 11, encaustic with collage elements

That Broken Hallelujah

9/16/2017

 
PictureBroken Hallelujah, 40x30, Encaustic/mixed media
Beauty even in brokenness--I think that's what  Cohen was writing about...

“...There’s a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn’t matter which you heard
The holy or the broken hallelujah?”
Leonard Cohen, composer


“The wound is where the light enters you” 
Rumi, 15th century Sufi Mystic


Chasing the Sun

9/9/2017

 
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Chasing the Sun: Daybreak, 12 x 36, Encaustic with photo bits
Searching & Chasing the Sun  —   I’ve done some paintings with the idea of “Chasing the Sun.”  These are a side trip along my Searching for Beauty in a Broken World journey.  These paintings are visual metaphors which focus on bright bits of optimism with strong mid-day yellows, sunset oranges and reds, and occasional piercing metallics.
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"Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is."  Mason Cooley

When we look at a particular work of northwest coast art and see the shape of it, we are only looking at its after-ife.  Its real life is the movement by which it got to be that shape.  Bill Reid, Haida carver

"Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making of something after it is found"  James Russell Lowell, American Poet

"It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing."
Mark Rothko, artist
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  • Home
  • About
  • Encaustic Medium
    • Setting Up Encaustic
    • Painting with Encaustic
  • Portfolio
    • Encaustic >
      • Floating World
      • Encaustic Landscapes
      • All Nature SIngs
      • Abstract - Mixed Media
      • Beached
      • Small & Square
    • Older Work >
      • Searching for Beauty
      • Collage
      • National Park Series
  • Contact
  • Make Good