The Creation

In the beginning, I created the green and blue painting. I began without an end in mind. My only objective was to experience the act of painting. I illegibly wrote my ideas and thoughts along the surface of the canvas, there only for the purpose of putting them there. I layered colors, choosing mostly shades of green and blue, and added water to pools of oil paint.

The result was a painting that resembled cells dividing, merging and forming something universal. I didn’t know where to take it from there, so I placed it in a corner where it sat for several months. With time, I chose to create a companion painting, using an orange and red color scheme, and it joined the green piece in the corner. This was the beginning of something, but I didn’t know what.

Several months later, I went to a museum and saw two works of art that depicted the creation of the earth. I was inspired.

I developed seven more paintings to follow in sequence after the first two, giving birth to my series. I depicted the separation of the heavens from the earth, of light from dark, and land from water. I continued with the creation of plant life, animal life, man and woman, and, finally, the day of rest.

I sit, eyes inches from the horizontal canvas, mesmerized by the liquid pools of color merging and repelling, gliding across the surface, leaving paths behind them. The paint dries, the water evaporates, and I repeat the process. Layering and waiting, watching. With a little urging from me, something beautiful is created.

In the process of creation...

This is the beginning of a painting I started at Thanksgiving. I asked a bunch of my friends at to write things they were thankful for. You can't see the words now, but I like knowing that they are there. The words are a part of the history of this painting. I dropped orange and red and then dark violet paint on the canvas, added some water, and voila! I don't know what it is yet but I like it right now. It feels like a womb to me....or something developing, emerging...
I love this painting so far. The colors on most of my photographs are a lot less intense than they are in real life. I experiemented with this one in Photoshop to see if I could re-create the actual color. I think this is a little too bright, but more accurate than the other photos. This one also feels like something growing...maybe a seed with roots. We'll see where it goes.
This is another section of the same painting above. Like I said, the colors are much more intense in real life. But I like the paths that were created by the drops of water traveling through the dark blue paint, leaving their trail behind.

(The comment below is referring to the creation series above. I moved the images but couldn't figure out how to move the comment with them)