Today, a fellow artist told me about Gillian Ayres. I had never heard of her, so I looked her up. In the 4 seconds it took me to conduct a Google image search, I knew I had discovered a new source of inspiration. I mean, just look at this painting. It’s a riot of color.Continue reading “Gillian Ayres”
Author Archives: Don Pelota
Jung on art
Every great work of art is objective and impersonal, and yet profoundly moving. The personal life of the artist is at most a help or a hindrance, but is never essential to his creative task. His personal career may be interesting & inevitable, but it does not explain his art. Carl Jung
Fireball
Diptych
What “monopainting” is
I started painting in college. I was a creative writing major who discovered late in my college career that my childhood tendency to draw tanks and spaceships was hinting at a deep desire to make art. What I learned, thanks to my mentor Dale Johnson, was to paint landscapes on canvas. I still love juicy,Continue reading “What “monopainting” is”
Untitled
Untitled
Pajaro
Amor creciendo
Acrylic on paper, 2016
When the print hits the fan
This is one of my earliest attempts at constructing paintings using wood block type. I was still in college and somehow got my hands on a bunch of wooden sans serif type blocks (probably used for making posters). My process was to paint onto the type pieces and then stamp them onto the paper. IContinue reading “When the print hits the fan”
