new work and moving forward... me too !

#2 Wood Panel, collage, work in progress

Getting close to home with this piece...
maps and influences things i ate, old & new...
all this in between visits with the Pulmonary rehab folks in Cedar City twice a week... 
along with the other summer projects that are coming my way, also some new Dr. appointments and follow-ups coming along this month... still actively carrying my camera about making images to document what i see as i move about...
Also reading the current Philip Pullman novel " The Book Of Dust" a great story teller, a good no think read just & enjoy...
Nice cool evening tonight, as are most summer nights here in the high mountain desert west...
The quilters are in town this weekend, so down town is busy with people...

#1 Wood Panel, collage, drawing...

Still working on #1 Wood Panel, taking it's time, liking what's coming out of it...
Have given myself a seven day break from fake, Fasting from my social media page, wall or whatever it is...
nice to get away and follow the council of the Prophet to the youth of the Church... 
some days i feel/think like the kids then my age catches up with me... 

There is something about sticks and found objects that are painted to change how the appear and are seen...

Painted sticks, real but not...

These will be added to the shelf wood panel pieces... more to find and colors to add to the  painted  white gesso... on them now...





Here is what's to come as the month moves forward...
CHEERS.

Long forgotten... Now new again.

Self-portrait, postcard image, collage, self-made frame.         2002

Let me start with a self-portrait form 2002 that i found in a closet down stairs along with 13 other framed images of my early work. Also with that stash 10 shadow box's from 2006. 

The ongoing process to simplify and rid/recycle work or frames into/onto current work goes forward. This piece caught my eye again and i brought it up to the studio and hung it on the shortage of open wall space that still remains, the red eastern wall.

Sketch book ideas: bowl & vessel... 

"tight like unto a dish..."

also past objects i drew and made...

this bowl image is not of my making, just a collected idea that i came across... 

always gleaning ideas from around me.

Current work in process: 

#1 Wood Panel, collage, drawing, detail.

This is the start of eleven wood panels, size 11"x 14", that i have started working on.

Working on/with these wood panels is better then a cardboard or canvas substrate that needs glass and frames... This also allows me too return to Assemblage & Constructions that i use to make... i also have box's of found objects that need some using up...

i have always been a builder at heart... since i was a child growing-up, ceramics in college, then shadow box constructions, out of school, All seems to be coming full circle.

Wood Panels, blank, with shelves, #2, #3 & #4...

current pieces in the very early stages...

gets the old juices running, mixing with new ideas...

new insights come each new day... 

so the possibilities are endless...

collage, drawings, paint, scratches, found objects...

those already found and some yet to be found...

try to be positive to combat the negative and contention 

going on in the world today.

my Art is a reflection of me and the world i have around 

me i in retirement... another hard lesson i am learning...

it is getting easer now that i am past the date i should have

been back to work.

As of 5/3/2018

Wood Panels #1,#2, #3 & #4...

with some "edgy" colors...

the sojourn through my world of ART continues...

CHEERS

Back again with new & old...Blue, sunny, wind of change...

Blue, sunny, windy morning... spring in the aire... 4/2/2018

Have not quite digested the Easter experience... yet...
may take some time.

Along with some active engagement with the changes...
that took place...

More to come on this subject.

New work 2018, left...              Old work 2017, right...

As for the new and the old work,  the new has stalled as
of now, the old is complete and has become one of my "signposts" to compare with where my thought process was as relative to the experiences of the past year and the new stalled work here...
i also have 10 additional pieces in the finished and incomplete states... my usual work is start to finish then move on to the next piece... this new direction might be the result of "retirement'' from my everyday working life... not sure about that yet either...

Northwall office toolbox is full 4/2/2018

So as both you and i can see... the box is full, it has been more full, but i have been uncluttering  as of late, that is a result of "retirement".

So the search for my grounding in our contentious & "noisey" world, in which we all live and deal with each day...

I do not desire my ART to come out as a reflection of that noise, contention & meaness
that i observe and experience going on in the world about me/us.

This takes me back to my to my opening statement... more digestion and action on my part...  more to come.
The box is full and my imagination is running mostly 24/7... lets see where it goes.

Thank You for stopping bye again.

CHEERS

No fooling...

Red rock box on the back deck... 2018

Will be back with a new post after Holy Week and the Easter Holiday...
So come back and look me up after April 2... no fooling.

above and above #1 Wood Panel 2018

                                                                                                                                 CHEERS...

Oh... what will i do ?

Selfie... by my hand,  Feb 2018

it's a clear blue sky very windy day...
keeping my eye out for the desert  blowing past the windows...
the dogs asleep on a sun patch by the back door... Adoublechocfudgebrownieshouldjustaboutdoit.

march 2 1430 hrs.  go ahead read the original...

why should i rewrite it here...
just read the original handwritten version...

Quilt block pattern...

#9 Collage, quilt pattern block-up


CHEERs for this day.

Reading... writing & mud pies...

www.potterboy.com  books and pottery..

Ben Behunin a good friend of mine makes mud-pies and writes books among other things going on in his creative life...

Me i  read each day... and now try to regroup my creative life since retirement is upon me...
it's like trying to find a new new "job" after working for the last fifty years...

Reading is how i feed myself each and every day... scriptures first think every morning...
news, good & bad, then books, i have a list of six at this time, and at the rate i read that could be for the next year... and at present as i said i am trying to get the creative juices running first then flowing, again. i have always put my creative energy into my work, ya i got caught in the i got to have $$$ trap, and i did not have much faith and hope in the full time creative avenue thing...
Then Ben comes along with in my case a book on what to do with the rest of my life...
this type of read for me it's best to know who's writing, ya know background and stuff... Ben i know personally so he is that person for me, he makes me think and ponder about things and become opinionated if you will for or against what he has to say balanced against what i read each day and what i know to be truth.

Ben's book my scratchings and one of his mugs...

Check out Ben's web site if you ave an interest or need for some good reading and some great pottery, he has eight books, this being his latest, and they are a great reads... and  lots of pottery... 
Enjoy... if you please.

#7 Collage, drawing, 2018  "Past Present Future"

As for me the search goes on...
looking for ways and always creating something...

CHEERS

What February already...

TV from the sky... along with lots of other stuff
big learning curve...
cold winter so far with no snow...
lots of brown grass about the yard...
new visuals and sounds for the new year...
retirement will not be realized till spring...
only this year not returning to "work"...

Collage #5 detail  still a work in progress...
giving away our public lands for nickels & dimes...

the state of Utah wants all the federal controlled land 
in the state...

i can't imagine how they can control it any better...
especially with the folks we elected to run the state...

#6 Collage 'drawing, watercolor 
also still in progress...
Ya can't walk as the crow flies in this country






no matter what i do time still passes...


somedays are better just napping with the dog

he's always game...

this is mostly one way country...
one way in, one way out, no loops...
besides they make ya dizzzzzzy !!

CHEERS