February 2nd - Thank you - Butterflies

Possibly a life altering month for me.  I was already prolific, now I'm just mental about creating. Here's one I don't think is finished, but it has been so fun working on a big one I wanted to share. This is four feet by three feet, not as big as unkonwn's recent one, but I don't have as big a truck as he does either. Thanks again  Bobi.  How can I help make sure we have a show, perhaps March artwalk? - Ed

THANK YOU BOBBIE!

It's always such a treat to join in on this, especially in January when personal expectations are high!  I'm afraid I lost steam about half way through but I was always thinking about doing art everyday and that's huge.  It becomes a habit and the habit becomes a talent and hopefully, some day, you become an expert and there is great joy in being so darn good at something!

Thanks so much Bobbie for spear heading this and encouraging us all to join in - it's a great event!

Thank you, everyone, for taking part in Art-a-Day 2013!  

It is always a treat to see what work, comments and experiences are shared.   I hope you had fun, perhaps had a break-through moment or discovered a new awareness that informs your work from here on. Feel free to keep posting and see you next January!~

Obviously the art-a-dayness didn't 

happen for me this year.  It's good to 

be reminded that just because we set 

aside time doesn't mean it's necessarily 

the right time. Living and re-learning! 

Hello again. Did another painting yesterday. This one of a farm road in Walla Walla during the sun set. I'll have Shepat post it after I look at it judgmentally and adjust. The tempera and acrylic is working well on masonite. How meditative making small paintings is. Hunting around town trying to find my painting of Satchmo isn't meditative and then I found it at K&S Boutique. Delivered to WSU yesterday. Peace. Pat

January 30th - Goddess

I took the sketch and put a version on canvas. 18" x 24"  I hesitated, to post it but I haven't painted much since Boston and there are only today and tomorrow left in the month.  So here she is. - Ed 

A Different Wavelength

Greetings. Well first off I would like to thank you all for the wonderful art you all have been posting. Some really fun stuff. Lots of talent. It's been great. The Paintings, the Drawings, the Weaving, Fractals, Digital Painting... etc. it's been great art and I loved it. :))  
      This is my final post for the ArtADay January 2013. It's been fun, although I haven't been painting everyday and posting even less, maybe some sort of focus thing. Anyway, for those of you who might know me in real life, might see me as one who is on a different wavelength than most people around me, and not always for the best.. :)  so I have this piece call "A Different Wavelength" Acrylic on 18 x 24 canvas. Not quite finished might have some small details, but in great shape for a final posting..
Greg Ashby

sharehouse Coffee, Richland WA, Lapoynte





New coffee shop in town.

"Moon over Tacos"

 

After our last Urban Sketching outing (at Nancy's) I spotted this strip mall Fiesta Mexican Restaurant on road 68.  After driving through a couple of parking lots looking for a good spot to sit in the warmth of my vehicle, I found the best one right across the street leading into it.  It wasn't really quite this dark, but you know, it's art, right?

 

 



I think I have skirted around this idea before but painting is meditative. I did these two to get my mind off of stuff that just isn't going to go away. They are about 5"X7"ish and I spent about 1/2 hr on each and now everything else seems less important. The content doesn't matter except they spoke to me so I replicated them and the process of replication is the thing. The ojects are artifacts which record the process. The pictures simply become the records of events. Also I listened to Puccini's Un bel di vedremo while painting these. If you don't know that, Google it, it is stunning! You do not need to understand the words (I sure don't)to know that this woman is hurting. The context becomes the content in this aria just as it does in visual art. Hey! That sounds like one of my lectures to the inmates. No wonder I am boring. If you read this far thanks. Pat

"Valentine's Day Candy & Messages"

 

Thanks to Nancy for the inspiration for something "Valetine's Day." 

Ashby tiny Purple Fishes Jan 26

Well this piece I am calling done. It's called "Tiny Purple Fishes".
It's a little weird. It's a line from a song by Cream called Tales of Brave Ulysses. Lots of weird psychedelic lines, but one always sticks out in my mind...  "Tiny Purples Fishes Run Laughing Through Your Fingers..."  So having that line on my mind for 35 years I painted it :)))
It is 16 x 20 Acrylic.

Greg Ashby

Did another little painting on masonite cut to fit a frame I got from Brooke at U&I for the sale of a painting. She traded me several little frames and it is so fun to do a small painting. It is sort of like meditating. You can't be thinking of anything else when painting and with the goings on in NYC, Indiana and other state's schools it is hard to not be thinking of that. Michael Cardew, an Eton phylosophy graduate, would said "They are killing creativity so they can measure it's corps." I think he was talking about IB though. I quit being an IB examiner last August so I guess I can say that stuff now. Pat Fleming

Blue Man

Squiggles and faces

Playing on my sketch pad while having morning coffee. Make some squiggles and then find a face in it.

January 25th - Kamelia

It will be midnight soon here in Massachusettes and since I'll be on planes all day tomorrow, I'm posting this for tomorrow.

January 24th - Smokey

I did this before but wanted to try again.  _ Ed

Accidental Collage

Good to see you all keeping things lively.  Certainly not doing my part this year.  C'est le vie. Maybe I'll do mine in March.  :)

Here's a freak software glitch.  Have no idea how it happened.  Perhaps having too many windows and too many graphics open and taxing this little computer's brain?

This is the original

Here's what showed up

January 23rd - Emma

Here is one I stayed up way too late last night and finished tonight. It was 12 degrees at seven tonight here in balmy Mass. - Ed

Here is the Ray painting so far. It is in powdered tempera with acrylic additive. I suppose one should experiment on a smaller scale and if I had thought of that I would have. God invented gesso for instances such as this. I think it is about 2/3 done but we'll see. I got cases of brown paint along with the 22 cases of tempera from the auction. How odd that seems to me, to have schools purchase brown paint. Think of all the educational advantages to learning how to mix brown and grey or even the secondaries. Once at Kamiakin we mixed buff clay with linseed oil when we ran out of paint. It never really dried. I understand that some of the Paints use vegetable oil. We should try that next. I have used brown tempera w/water as an underglaze on pots since tempera is clay based. It works pretty well but my clay is brown too so it doesn't show very well. Isn't my wife genius to put the pic on for me? Pat

"Dream", and color manipulation

"Dream" original 12x12 on cradled masonite.

"Dream" with vibrancy digitally altered

"Dream" color inversion of the version above.

I wanted to see how much I could manipulate the color of an existing painting in photoshop. It does create for some interesting variations. First one is the original, the second two are the variations. The second one was a variation of the vibrance, the third started as an inversion of the color of the one above it, and texturizing the image. I'm enjoying these. Would be fun to paint them backwards this way.