I have made some more progress on my “Chasing the Dragons Tail,” painting.  I am not sure where this will end up but it feels like I am going in the right direction. Bad news is I am out of one of the paints I need to keep going.  So until I get more paint I have to work on other pieces.   At this point I will call it phase two.   I like it and hope you do too:)

A budding artist

My daughter drew a picture for me and when I asked her what is called, she calmly stated,”Its a Rainbow Robot.”  As you can imagine, this makes me oh so proud of her.  She also tells me that she wants to be an artist just like me.  If that does’nt touch your heart I don’t know what will.  Its these days I try and remember on the not so good days, when shes crying her heart out because she can’t have anymore cheese puffs.

Work in progress

My daughter asked me the other night to make a her a drawing of a fish in the ocean,  this is the second attempt at it.  I like it so much I think I am going to turn it into a  painting.  For some reason I have really been on a water theme.  Half water and half galaxy paintings right now. ….It should look something like “Into the Deep,” which is another painting I am working on.  Its the one you see posted in the 2nd pic.  The work in progress.

Recent work

Recently I started a new painting which I am currently calling, “chasing the dragons tail.”  what you see in the first couple of pic is what I have done so far.  Fast forward to two days ago.   I needed to blow my nose so I got and get the last tissue from the box.  Low and behold the colors on the box are almost exactly like my painting, even the lines.  Now I have  often wondered where I get some of ideas.  I think this one is  pretty obvious, just not to me consciously.  I mean that box has probably been lying there for a couple of months and I had never really noticed it.  The following is proof how my subconscious is more aware than my waking self…..LOL:)

 So I have been working on my artist statement for the past two days and below is what I have come up with.  Let me just say its a grueling process, but all worth it.

I aspire to create an amplified eye candy experience that rocks one’s mind and soul. 

I believe it’s all the years I lived in Angel Fire, NM that have influenced me the most.  It was there and my closeness with nature that inspires what I paint today

Sometimes I have an idea in mind, or theme, other times I let my subconscious be the guide.  Once the focal color is established, I highlight blemishes, shadows or imperfections on the canvas with bold lines of acrylic paint creating a balanced flow of swirling patterns.  The outcome is like lightning striking the canvas and electrifying the soul.

Today I am working on my Artist Statement for an upcoming show I am trying to get into.  Below is one of the articles that I found online which I thought was a great way to applying to every day life titled, ” A good Elevator Speech.”……………………hopefully tomorrow I can post my artist statement.  Which right now is making feel very inspired and reminds me that despite loosing my current gallery to them closing their doors, that I will make it in the art world.  For I have something to share with the society.  Something that is inside of me that has to come out.  That something is my ELECTRIC ARTWORK!

An Elevator Speech -
an Indispensable Tool for Self Promotion

by Molly Gordon, MCC

Tonight I talked to an old friend who I had not talked to in over 4 years.   Luckily, thanks to my website she found me and goodle, thanks GOOGLE:)  Needless to say it was just like old times.  I am sad that we lost touch but happy to know that its never too late to reconnect.  She asked about my art because she saw my website(www.digdougsart.com).  I was talking to her about one the paintings that I finished when I started painting again.  That painting is titled “Life,”  its been a little over two years now since I picked up the paint brush  and I think its so fitting that the painting that I finish first is “Life.”  After all it breathed new life into me and gave me a second wind with my art!  Time to take a deep breath and soak it all in.  Inhale….exhale…inhale…exhale…inhale…..exhale:)

Last night was my first showing at the East End Gallery and to top it off we painted on scantily clad ladies in their bikinis all for the sake of ART.  My model was Lorri and she was such a trooper!  Four hours, 3 breaks,  lots and lots of paint, and my “Tribal Butterfly,” was finished.  If you have never been to a body art canvas party I suggest you go.  It was so much and I cant wait to do it again.  Thanks to everybody who stopped by and thanks for supporting local ARTS.  Hope you dug it I know I dig it!………..if you would like to see video of the event go to my website www.digsdougsart.com and click on click on FIND US.  That will take to you my digdougsar fansite on Facebook.   My blog can not handle a file size this big for this post.

Tonight I started a new painting.  It was suppose to be something totally different that what it is right now.    That is part of the excitement of letting your subconscience being the guide.  Its like opening doors that have never been open.  Just wondering whats on the other side and what you will see once you choose to go through that door.  I have often said that each painting is an experiment  and this one is no exception.  Right now I call it “Chasing the dragons Tail,”  by next week who knows it could taming the beast of mans inhumanity…lol…I doubt it.  Bottom line is its fun to be starting a new painting with no expectations and no boundries.  I just hope my subconscience is playing some wicked magic trick on me.

For quite awhile now I have been admiring my daughters scribble drawings especially those done with markers.  I have also been playing around with the idea of turning other peoples scribbles into my art.  As part of an experiment tonight I had my wife draw on an 8×10 piece of paper with a pencil.  I only gave her these instructions, “think of nature.”  I also had my daughter draw on a piece of paper as well.  Now with her being only four I did not give her any instructions. I just let her go to town on the paper.  I did try to get her to use only a pencil but she insisted on using a purple and pink marker for part of the drawing.  I went along with it hoping it would add to the experiment.  Below are the images of the outcomes.  There is also one pic of the drawing my daughter did before I began to turn her scribble into my art.  I really liked this experiment and hope to expand on it further.  Next time I am going to try and use more markers than prisma colors(kind of like map colors).   The idea is to also turn these drawings into paintings.