Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Three Point Yoga


 Three Legged Dog

photoshop, 9/15/2020


In Sankrit this yoga posture is named, " Tri Pada Adho Mukha Svanasana".  

I think that this style of figure shows "tribal" influence.

I took yoga classes for about twenty, twenty five, years, from the 70's into the 90's.  I seldom do yoga sessions now.  But, at times, I am aware of my body, like when I am waiting for the coffee to brew, and do Mountain Pose, just standing straight and balanced with deep breathing.  I used to do Mountain Pose while waiting in lines.

I can still touch my toes.  I was never able to do a head stand without propping my feet against the wall.  The yoga practice that i did is still benefiting me.  I think that it taught me more self awareness, and more awareness in general.  The practice taught me what little poise that I possess.

These days my exercise is gardening.  This is a nice work out for my age.  Bending, stooping, hoeing, shoveling.  Sometimes i think that i should do more yoga, then i think, that i should not should on myself.






Thursday, September 10, 2020

Silver Creek Nature

The Nature of Silver Creek





Egrets and Creek

photograph, photoshopped, digital, 2020










Water Ripples, 2020

 photograph, Photoshop,
signed, archival, limited edition print




Blue Heron

trail cam photograph, Photoshop,
signed, archival, limited edition, ink jet print









My dog, Harpo

 on a trail by the creek
Trail cam photo and Photoshop










                                                                      Doe on Sandbar  

                                                                       Trail cam photo,
                                                              worked up with Photoshop,
signed, archival, limited edition inkjet print


                                                                    


Wisteria in Full Bloom

Photograph and Photoshop


I am so blessed to live in this  Louisiana jungle and share it with friends and family.  We have trails through the woodlands and swamp. I am not exaggerating when I call it a jungle.   Nature is potent, growing in wild tangles.  There are oak trees that are 6' in diameter and I guess 60', 80 feet tall.  This exuberant nature feeds my spirit with joy. 

Nature supports my art creations.  I make art almost every day.  Nature and art creation nourish my spirit.  I can feel the peaceful flowing soul energy of Mother Nature when I walk the trails.  

Wildlife here includes:  many deer, wild boar, beaver, armadillo, raccoon, rabbits, squirrels, frogs that throb the air with their songs, multicolored lizards, salamander, and box turtle.  Water turtle and fish in the creek. 

 A symphony of birds, including blue heron, large and small egret, king fisher, owls, hawks, a large and a small variety of woodpeckers.  The hummingbird feeders bring amazing, tiny, jewel colored birds, that zoom swiftly among the trees.  

And Snakes, most are not dangerous. Cotton mouth moccasins are rarely seen.  I feel an adrenaline fear rush and back away slowly.  I tell the children to watch where they put their feet and hands. 

The creek feeds into the Bogue Falaya, which flows into the Pearl River, and Honey Island Swamp.  A relatively, sparsely populated green corridor runs more than a hundred miles into the Gulf.  I have examined it on Google Earth.  It is a migration corridor for birds and other critters.  Eye witnesses claim to have seen Big Foot in Honey Island Swamp and along the Pearl.  I am on the look out, but have not seen him yet.  

Two inch benign banana spiders make webs that shimmer in the dappled sun light.  Occasionally, in the spring, mosquitoes bite.  Graceful butterflies of many colors.  Dragonflies that are black, accented with iridescent pthalo blue wings.

Such beauty, an embarrassment of riches.

The children like to kayak to a sandbar where we swim.  Sitting on the sandbar we hunt for fossils, agate and Native American artifacts.

We planted moso bamboo in 2006.  This plant can GROW!  It covers maybe half an acre now.  Sassafras, (historically used to make rootbeer and file for gumbo ), grows as a second story under the tall bamboo.

It took me a long time to get here.  I grew up moving around with my Air Force Dad. I moved around quite a bit as an adult.  Trying out different spots.  When I got close to retirement, I searched for my forever home.  

January 1, 2002, my family and I tent camped on our new land. My forever home.

I lived in a tent while my sons, brother, nephew, and friends, built the house.  I moved lightly into the house before it was closed in.  A bird nested in the woodwork framing.  We sat in the area that was to be the living room, the walls were up, but had no windows or doors.  Devoted Mama Bird flew over our heads, back and forth to feed the gaping beaks of tiny babies. 

I self identified as an Artist in 1980.  My family also built me a studio.  I create almost everyday, following an evolving stream of inspiration.  A few themes migrate into my work at different times.  Primarily nature and luminous women. I am a spiritual seeker, art maps out my seeker path.

 I am blessed with a satisfying way to experience life on earth.














Three Graces, Cubismo









Three Graces, Cubismo

archival ink jet print


Three Graces, Exploded

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

 







Dolphins, 8/2020

digital






Three Graces, Ethereal

digital, 8/2020


I opened photoshop and decided to put myself on art autopilot.  Usually I have an idea in mind when i create.  This time, i just played around, just let whatever happened, happen.  Something rather ethereal and water like happened.  I saw dolphins.  Went to the web and harvested a photo of dolphins.  Worked on the dolphins, thinking about the graceful movements of dolphins and water.  I created light effects.   I liked what happened.  I liked the style, so decided to do another Three Graces in that style.  So, here, you have it.







Monday, August 17, 2020

Three Graces, canvas paintings









Three Graces, Painterly Realistic

acrylic on canvas, 48"x 36", 6/2020






Three Graces, Crystallized

acrylic on canvas, 48"x 36", 6/2020








Yoga Sunbeams, Deer

 digital, 2020

My muse leads me.  This year has been mostly women.  I did The Three Graces with two 48"x36", acrylic on canvas.  I dont know how many digital images I made.  At least twenty.  My intent was to do the same image in many different styles. So , I created the same figures in styles ranging from painterly realistic to cubistic to I dont know what to call it.  Also, I have done some painted driftwood pieces.

 There have been several images of women dancing. In the clouds, in the forest and so on.  

Next, I thought, "Yoga, eureka!".  This px shows a yoga headstand, in the forest, with a deer.  The inspiration picture of the deer came from a trail cam that we set up down by the creek.  I follow my muse along a path that is beautiful.

They have changed the format of blogger, and I dont know how to get the writing in the place where I want it.  Tech can be so annoying.   I would rather be painting or gardening.  



  

Tuesday, July 28, 2020







Three Graces, Streaming

archival ink jet print, 6/2020





Yoga, Square, Centrifuge

archival ink jet print, 7/2020







Yoga with Pelicans

archival ink jet print, 7/2020




One thing leads to another.  "Yoga with Pelicans" has for a background a photograph of an acrylic on paper painting, that was worked up in Photoshop and then used with a digital image of yoga woman.

"Three Graces, Streaming", is a continuation of a suite that I have been working on for about six months.  Graceful women have shown  up in my created images for more than a couple of decades.  Since the 70's, at least.  I have a steady stream of creativity with one thing leading to another.  The images evolve, the women change their style, from relatively realistic to abstract.  From the pure love of the Christian Mary variations, to the strength of warrior woman.  The Greek Artemis and Roman Diana, are examples of warrior women that have occurred in the creative stream from as far back as the human race can remember. Why do I do this, I wonder.  I want to create an impression of ideal femininity for myself and for viewers.