Alias Arts

Title: Peace of Mind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 101×76 cm

Seeing the mist rolling in from the lake over the big dune,

coming closer, enveloping,

until finally, only feeling surrounded by grey.

I thought it would be nice to share some photos of the sky on the one day of the year when we have the most time to look at it.

I took a series of photos of the sky over a period of about three months quite some time ago and …

oil on maple, 24 x 18 inches.

This spring, I started sketching landscapes rather than only photographing them. My first motif was the view from a bluff. Painting on site would be cumbersome because it would mean dragging supplies along a 20 min hike.

Hoping to get help in understanding the …

Please consider this as an extension of the pool post.

The interaction of the wooden walkway at the duck pond and its environment can ceaselessly surprise. Tonight the sky was cloudless and the water’s surface animated by waterfowl.

The term “ambiguously architectonic’ comes to mind.

I tend to favor the last image. Would …

Occasionally I’ll be the first swimmer at the pool. Undisturbed, the waters present a quietly impressive spectacle. I finally remembered to take the camera along on the off chance  and was rewarded with a clear and placid opportunity.

Within and surrounding the water is a series of rhythms. The bottom of …

It may have been kick started by a show of his work at the Columbus Museum of Art earlier this year, but I have been paying more attention to Dale Chihuly.

For years now I have maintained the opinion that Chihuly was primarily a showman, looking for the biggest and most …

A while back, Birgit and I had a short discussion in the comment section about “Transcendental Art” but neither one of us were unable to expand upon the subject in a satisfactory way at the time.

I checked out the clippings from that long ago art magazine article and found, happily, …

oil on board, 12 x 12 inches

Here is the companion to Listening I.

Two kinds of meditation – whirling and quiet.