Delusions of Capability

 I am still exploring digital mixed media in the Procreate app.  I started by revisiting my old art and wanting to recreate another ‘girl’ to see how my skills of understanding human anatomy have progressed in the whimsical realm.   I drew the face first and then did several loads of laundry.  I had no idea how to go about creating hair again.  It has been at least 6 years since I had drawn/painted any whimsical characters.   So… I ignored the hair. And in ignoring the hair, the music in my head started playing again… on loop.  Earworms… the term the rest of the world gives this phenomenon.  I view it as the next thing I have to get out of my head and be an expression of my soul.  My brain associated the woman sans hair with Sinéad O’Connor and immediately started singing, “It’s been seven hours and fifteen days…” There’s quite a bit of symbolism in this piece.  The abundantly, over-exaggerated eyelashes representing the excessive eye ma...

Whew… this doesn’t look like much but it required a lot of introspection.  I don’t tend to spend a lot of time assessing how I want other people to see, view or know me.  I work from home, don’t associate with the general public very often and do grocery pickups. I am not agoraphobic… I just really like my house, my space and doing what I want when I want without anyone else’s opinion on how I live my life.   AI is a bit controversial and I get it.  It is making parts of my own job obsolete and if my boss actually knew how to use it, I’d be out of a job.  But still I think there are some educational benefits to everyone learning to use AI.  First and foremost, know thy enemy and what they are capable of doing.  I think it’s important to understand HOW artificial intelligence works.  I don’t agree with everything it can do, but I use it to understand it.  And for the record, AI is wrong a lot with the information it provides.  One thing t...

 I do believe this is my first ever monochromatic piece for my digital art journal.  The rules were to only use black and white with one or two accent colors. That’s it.  The topic could be anything.  I don’t even know where this came from or how I landed on it.  I started with two crescent moons and then it just went from there.  This is a good example of how a symbol or color reminds me of someone or something significant in my life. All of the people represented in this piece have moved on from this earthly plane.  Maybe, the black represents their death here and the white is my remembrance??  I don’t know.  Maybe it’s just color with no meaning at all.  I tried to use images and words that were symbolic of how I remember them.   If I were to explain the meaning behind every word or image on this piece this blog post would be a 45 minute read.  Nobody has time for that, not even me.  There is nothing philosophical or gr...

I have gone back to digital painting again.  It is winter.  High season is over and paid work is virtually nonexistent.  I’m ok with that.  I need the downtime.  April to September is nonstop 7 days a week work, work, work.  I like hibernation season when the days are short, the nights are long, it’s too cold to go outside and it’s perfectly acceptable to snuggle up on the couch with an electric blanket, my iPad, a cup of coffee and turn on a Procreate tutorial on YouTube or one of the many learning platforms I am subscribed to but ignore all summer long. These are the first five paintings in the Kickstart Volume 1 series at BardotBrush.com I think the egg and pear are my best works so far. I wasn’t really ‘into’ the other items. Maybe I was tired or maybe they just don’t speak to me the ways eggs and pears do. Maybe it was the style of painting. Still Life seems to be more my speed.