Lately I seem to keep running into accidental abstracts of drips. It started in late January, when I decided to try using my first smart phone for a photo shoot of the Chinese New Year parade. On the way I … Continue reading Accidental Abstracts of Drips
A ‘glue abstract’ is created when a sign is removed from a wall and exposes the movement, often unintentionally artistic, of the person who was applying the glue. This glue abstract was created when a metal ‘No Parking’ sign was … Continue reading Hidden Glue Abstracts Exposed!
Submission for exhibit called ‘NEXT’. Like the salmon, we have all spent the last few years struggling to make it upstream. The flashes of colour and rippling water could be likened to a dance of life. The salmon story to … Continue reading Watercolour Paintings of Salmon Swimming Upstream
My first thought when I saw the Lens-Artists latest photo challenge ‘Photographic Groove’ was MACRO. I immediately put together a batch of favourites from the last few months and then I discovered that my groove could be better described as … Continue reading My Photographic Groove
In an effort to present the dichotomy of Vancouver here is another batch of eroded urban objects combined with close-ups of nature. A row of used red concrete forms combined with the first horsetails of spring (36 x 16). Abstract … Continue reading Seeing Double: More Natural/Unnatural Diptychs
One of the small things that absolutely delights me is layers of tape that have eroded into pieces of accidental art. An old chair taped up in Mexico City. Getting in closer: a taped-up chair seat on nearby Commercial Drive, … Continue reading Eroded Urban Objects: Layers of Tape
For plants to cast shadows on themselves it helps to have an interesting shape or edge, where the cast shadow repeats and emphasizes that shape or edging. The scalloped edges of this red Coleus repeating themselves on the leaves below. … Continue reading Plants Casting Shadows on Themselves
I came across a glorious red dumpster last month. Thinking of my diptych series of Natural/Unnatural I said to myself, ‘Too bad trees don’t have bark in this colour red’. Then I looked at Adobe Bridge where I usually sort … Continue reading Autumn Red Abstracts
The other day, while outside on the deck sipping my morning coffee, I noticed a smeary shadow from the Guara plant had fallen across the book I was reading. There was nothing for it but to get up, go inside … Continue reading Plant Shadows
One exercise we had in a Mixed Media class was to think of something we did with paper. Me I thought of folded brochures, and the next thing I was doing was masses of sketches of paintings with folded paper … Continue reading Folded Paper Painting of the Chalk Cliffs at Stevns Klint in Denmark
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