Distant

My artwork is piling up ever so gradually. Might try to sell them off at an upcoming garage sale. I've gone through so many stages in such a short amount of time. I'm still struggling a little with accepting my own work and the generic randomness that I tend to explore. I also recently painted a portrait of someone whom I am infatuated with but it appears she does not like it very much. I don't know whether I should be hurt by her response or not. I guess I'll just take it with a grain of salt.

I've also been working on completing three different novels/stories of mine. For some reason I kept putting my writing on hold but now I am determined to see it through. I don't think I will post any of it online right away. At least not until I've had it read by some publishers.

In any case, here are two abstract paintings I just painted a few hours ago. They are titled "Distant" and "Distant II."

Strained Looks

Titled

Been experimenting a lot lately with this scribbled technique. I just allow my hand to draw a bunch of free-form images/shapes. The goal is not to produce something perfect but rather something completely spontaneous and energetic.

This piece is titled "Titled."

Pain Provides Proof

Original abstract acrylic painting with pencil shavings. Titled "Pain Provides Proof."

Eleven

I've added a new painting technique to my repertoire. The other day I was gonna' paint some plastic forks and adhere them to the canvas and then apply more paint on top of them to create some kind of great textural effect. But before I could do it I somehow mistakenly started using one of the forks as a paintbrush and then I noticed it created an awesome effect of its own. By using a fork instead of a paintbrush I began to feel much more free in my technique. It somehow creates the illusion of texture within the paint. It looks better in person than in pictures but here is a pic of the first painting which had the honor of benefitting from this technique. I titled it simply "Eleven."

I haven't been up to much else other than re-watching the Jackson Pollock movie and the boxed set of the HBO series Rome. And also reading Love in the Time of Cholera. :-)

Enjoy The Crash

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