When I sat down to write you a page this morning, I needed to make it quick.  Why? ’cause I spent all morning making a painting.

We have all seen abstract paintings, but if asked to paint an abstract, we brand new digital artists,  have no idea how to begin.

A simple change in mindset is needed to start an abstract. A move away from the need to copy and toward the understanding that the artist is in charge of what he thinks he sees.

Does his mind see a pattern that is fun to look at, or is it a pattern that clearly reveals a hidden images, or is it surreal where some images are quite clear but can’t be real – except in the artists mind of course.

Here is one I made this morning:

MORNING CHAIR – Come sit a spell.

 It is most often a beautiful morning in our Florida home in the winter and in our summer home on the northern Island. So as I sat down to think abstract here is what happened – on my iPad of course. My mind combined the the north and south into this image that is fun to look at but can not be real except in my mind.

Until the next time – maybe we can ponder all this stuff together.