New work: Freighthouse Square Digital painting with iPad and #Procreate

The latest issue of my newsletter project 100 Doodles where some kids are just trying to do a good deed.

[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”2500.0”] Napping Commuter Digital painting, iPad Pro, Procreate [/caption]

Napping Commuter is a a digital painting for Instagram. I created this piece with the intention of exhibiting in pieces on Instagram over the course of a week. Once completed I broke the piece into a grid of 12 squares then posted each in order to my Instagram account such that viewing my profile would reveal the full image. Each post revealing a bit more of the image. Some posts stand alone as works, some are strange and cryptic. 

With this piece I wanted to capture some of the feeling of riding the train to Seattle - with this poor commuter as the viewer's avatar. Above him are concrete walls with windows and blotchy paint. Something you'll see a lot of as you cruise through Puyallup and Sumner. The number "2" came from a photograph from years ago. On the side of the train one morning I noticed the number two - in bright white Helvetica and right next to it, the dark blue ghost of where another "2" once was. I snapped a photo. Those two 2s have come to graphically represent the train in my mind - something about the faded space where a decal once was, next to a bright fresh decal of the very same thing says something about repetition and pattern and commuting.

Matthew Grabelsky makes paintings of perfectly average and normal people on the NYC subway.

Why do designers have unnavigable websites?

Work in progress on a new digital painting

Milt Kobayashi creates brushy, expressive figurative paintings. Small quiet scenes which are heavy with emotion. The canvases are surprisingly small - some only 10“ x10“. I love the flattened space and graphic quality of his compositions.

Xtian Miller creates out Swiss-style poster designs relying heavily on typography and simple shapes.

Good mornining

Lyndon Probst creates interesting, sculptural paintings that float between minimal abstraction, geometric representation, and op-art. They have a playful, but architectural quality.

The latest edition of my newsletter project 100 Doodles where I look over a fence.

A two headed poppy

[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”2500.0”] Fountain pen on watercolor paper [/caption]

I was trying to explain JavaScript this at work - how it can change depending upon the context. This can be hard to grasp. I ended up explaining that this is like “here” - “here” is where you are right now. If you go there here is now there. this is here. Here this is.

Caspar Fairhall uses the term “time-based works” for his video and interactive work. I’ve been using the term “web paintings” but I don’t think that works very well. I should probably follow suit or just be blunt and call them “web sites”

Lydia Okumura is a New York based artist who uses acrylic paint, pencil, yarn, and aluminum sheets to carve holes in 3d space.

I just discovered @Caspar on Micro.Blog (it’s Micro Monday) - Caspar creates paintings, video, and interactive art. His paintings look like 3D slices of 4D worlds.

You can see his recent work here: http://caspar.micro.blog or on his website http://casparfairhall.com

Post rain light

Tacoma from Ruston Point