It started with a reflection on a car hood. Yet another iPhone photo, color-manipulated and with a watercolor filter applied.
Abstract Art
I like it that way ~
Nothing more to say. iPhone photo, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City.
Brown-and-gray abstract ~
Taken at the Bloch Addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. iPhone photograph, slightly enhanced color.
Orange splash ~
Lately I’ve been trying out a software program called ProCreate on my iPad. Can there really be such a thing as iPad art? Well, sure (although my work may not qualify). Even David Hockney has taken to creating iPad art. I’m not a Hockney fan, but digital art of various kinds has been with us for some time now, and pixels are simply another medium for creativity. I haven’t yet figured out how to use acrylics to make abstract art that’s worth even a glance. Things flow more spontaneously when I’m using the stylus on the screen rather than using paint on the brush.
Black, brown, and beige ~
This photograph is currently on exhibit, along with two others I’ve posted here, at Impasto Gallery in Longmont, Colo. I titled this after the Duke Ellington composition (which I’ve heard only snippets of, to my shame). This photo would work well on an album cover, I think. I took it with my iPhone last August at the Bloch Addition of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. I have some others from that visit that I’ll be posting. No adjustments of any kind were made to this image.
Joint ~
Detail of “Endless Coupling,” Isamu Noguchi, 1988, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. iPhone photograph.
Paprika, pumpkin, saffron ~
iPhone photo, cropped and color-intensified. Taken at Bai Tong restaurant, Loveland, Colorado.
Am I too blue for you? ~
Another iPhone photo, color intensified. Taken at Bowl Plaza in Lucas, Kansas. The title is a Lucinda Williams song from her self-titled album. (We don’t need to say “eponymous,” do we? Good.)
Fractured ~
Closeup of a barricade, Carterville, Illinois. Fuji X10.
Clueless ~
Not sure why this happened, but the camera was taking an unexpectedly long time processing this photo and I accidentally moved it. But with some extra saturation I thought it made a swell abstract. Fuji X-10.
VAPOR AND FLOW 