Water is mesmerizing and soothing to watch. This year I have painted a number of vacant water scenes. They are also fairly mesmerizing to paint.
Tag: abstract art
Gloom & Yellow
A simple cloudscape that I completed the other day. This one has a lot of subtle character that was difficult to capture with the camera.
Golden
A pretty simple little painting with some textural experiments that seemee a bit intriguing. More continuation on the moody landscapes.
The Rain
This is a 10×10″ painting I completed recently. I keep getting pulled back to clouds and atmosphere.
two of a kind
A Mixed Bag (Amalgamation)
Anyone who has digitized their artwork knows how difficult it can be to capture an accurate representation. First getting the image “square” so that the art is not being distorted. Finessing the lighting so that it is bright without glare. Balancing the contrast, hue and saturation to accurately represents the original work etc…
I recently had a little fun with some work I had painstakingly digitized. I used a simple little app called “layout” on my iPhone in order to combine multiple images for a single Instagram post. Immediately the paintings started to feel like new work. The specifics of the images and the context shifted making them feel fresh and a bit more intriguing. In college I created a number of paintings that were a pre planned amalgamation but they lacked the spontaneous and unique results that are immediately possible in the digital age. Part of me wants to take a saw and glue to my work to recreate these kind of hybrids! In the end it is just an interesting exercise. What are your thoughts on the results?
have a seat…
An empty chair is a vacant place. To some an inviting spot to rest their bones. When I paint one it is a lonesome nowhere (maybe that’s just me).
The show must go on! The show is over.
This weekend I flew up to Ketchikan to help pack up the “Empty Spaces” show. It was a great experience in a beautiful location. The town has a very active and engaged artist community.
I sold six paintings and it is nice to know those pieces will be part of Alaska. Some of them will reside on the waterfront with views much superior to The my studio.
I hope to make it up to this country again.
Happy Halloween!
A lot of my work tends to be autumnal. This one in particular seems appropriate for a Halloween post. The subject is a monkey skull in an old iPhone box. The juxtaposition seems to say it all.
Decomposing Light
I have done a lot of small paintings around the theme of decomposing light. Using the interplay of texture and color to convey that sense of daylight transition to darkness. I recently took some photographs of some that I am preparing to send to a miniature show. For this show they can be 6″x6″ as the largest dimensions. These also aren’t the hyper-realistic, super detailed type of paintings that true miniature painters make. They are simply small but mighty?
brian sostrom 