This is one of my favorite artists, the photo from a New York Times article sometime back.  I try to save these clippings of people that inspire my own work.  The article goes on to say that the work is difficult to interpret.  Every artist has their own rationale, their own message. The color, the form, the abstractness of this work is the message that comes through for me.

SUNSPOT

CARNIVAL

acrylic on canvas

today

More experimentation as I get my game back on..

there are more layers here than usual and that is new.

Reminds me of a hot sunny carnival afternoon.

Any other ideas for naming this piece?

When I take a fun swing at the canvas 

the surprises come along.  The paint sort of dances itself

into a kind of self determined evolution. If I try to 

control it,  it pouts....

This morning the decision was made  to play with this canvas before starting

in  writing at my computer.

Am hoping that you all  will comment. Let me know

what you think....

studio life can get lonely....

THE WOODS ARE DARK AND DEEP

 Today a gift of walking in the state park of Fort Clinch.  We decided to get membership and take more time to quietly walk there.

Feeds our spirits with birdsong, and light and peace.  A good time to try out

a new compact camera which met

expectations. Why don't we take time like this more often?

Inspiration everywhere the eye wanders.....

"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out 'til sundown,

for going out, I found, was really going in."

John Muir 1938

 Mystica

acrylic abstract painting

6 x6 inches

Sandra J. Pineault

May 17, 2012

As I looked for something in my art closet, stuff spilled out onto the floor. Two small
canvases were looking for me. I began to play with them.

Who knows from where inspiration comes...where it takes us.  As I enter yet another

phase of creativity, I have taken to playing even more, grasping colors for only 

intuitive reasons.  For me this is like a galactic dance.

 The darks in the painting's

background shimmer like the dark night of a somewhere universe .

Inside the explosion of bright color, we are taken 

to breathtaking heights of creation.  It is certain that I could do

more, but why interfere?

I am playing with other things....more tomorrow.

CREATING A WILD THING....

This is a long story. To make it short, we inherited this duck 7 years ago when we

moved here. The previous owner had dressed it so we kept up the tradition. We added to the wardrobe such things as a Harley Davidson leather jacket.

Children and grandchildren love the duck and when  some of them visit, this is their

first stop after grandparent hugs. It has been fun, even truck drivers stop and take photos

of the seasonal and humorous garbs.  Until a few weeks ago....when someone sneaked in

and stole the duck's pirate outfit (which he wears for the Shrimp Festival here every year).

We decided to take a different turn....a creative turn and forget the clothes for something new.

Here is the saga in pictures...

THE DUCK AND I

THE PROCESS

an experiment in cement...

The cement is porous, of course, and collects the paint in interesting patterns/

I had grandiose design ideas then decided to go an abstract

intuitive route.  He is drying now and we shall see if more would be added.

REST IN PEACE....MAURICE...

Maurice Sendak

died this month at age 83 years.

This photograph published  May 8th in the Washington Post.

One of the most beloved children's book writers and illustrators, this

is a great loss.  There has never been nor ever will be anyone

like him.

LONG LIVE THE RIGHT BRAIN

(with help from the left)

I do not know where I got this on the web, but it is a wonderful rendition

of the creative side of our brain.  It also expresses the loosening of

artistic inhibitions and the joy of art.  Kind of a dancing visual metaphor, if

you will.

Right now I am trying to unloose my own boundaries. I am trying

to access the right side of my brain to find new ideas.  The irony is

that if one tries too hard the intuitions do not come through....

Needing to breath and find Zen moments.

My best idea moments come when I first awake in the morning.

They come like swift little birds with new songs....

When are your best intuitive moments?

FESTIVAL OF COLOR...

I have long been intrigued by the Festival of Holi in India, also called the Festival of Color.

This is a great video exploding in color ...what artist would not want to be there?

What abstract artist would not want to just let the color fly and land where it would.....

VIBRATIONAL DRAWING....

VIBRATIONAL DRAWING 

   copyright Sandra J. Pineault

Vibrational drawing is about

Connection

Relativity

Space

Line

Freedom

Movement

The age old but ever true maxims of the design process;

composition, negative space, etc. are 

all embodied here but in a

new contemporary form.

Vibrational drawing will speak to you in many ways and

enliven even traditional art.

VIBRATIONS.....meditative drawings

VIBRATION I

meditative drawing by

Sandra J. Pineault

April 2012

From my Mandala drawings, I have entered another meditative

pen and ink experience, yet to be named.  Perhaps, breathing in

black and white.....or

 Vibrations in Black and White

Free form dancing with pen and ink.

Opening, responding to an inner urge to create.

Being...no judging or labeling except in positive stanza, stating, remaining, calming.

Not defining, which is difficult....

After a time of letting the lines sleep

read them like tea leaves.

VIBRATION 11

Meditative drawing by

Sandra J. Pineault

April 2012

To dance without a song..to listen to the vibrations of the universe, 

both within and without.  Only calmness feels the hymn.

When one looks up, out, beyond and beneath,

stillness follows.  The touch so subtle

as to easily be missed, like the kiss of a breeze..

like becoming 

the

tuning fork...

VIBRATION 111

meditative drawing by

Sandra J. Pineault

April 2012