First Artwork of 2009
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Oscar Wilde famously quipped “Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
When an artist allows the creative process to trump the ho-hum banalities of everyday life, there can be some interesting results.
What if the act of making art could cast the mold for a year in the making?
What if the choice of a specific idea or image could influence the outcome of a brand new year?
What if the very act of creativity (at the outset of a New Year) could be a harbinger for a a creative, milestone year?
Or, to put it simply, what if the conscious choice to spend the first hours and days of a New Year engaged, really focused, on being creative casts a certain attitude on the remaining 364 days ahead?
That would be a good reason to step up to creativity!
Leaving nothing to chance, I decided to do whatever…exactly…I wanted to for the past couple of days. Turns out I planted myself in front of my easel to produce a New Painting to match the New Year.
But not just any painting, not a random subject!
I decided to paint a picture of a dragon-fly resting on a leaf.
For me, this is symbolic of latent energy…the dragon-fly can spring off it’s temporary resting spot at any time and fly away into the sky!
Thought I would show you a few of the steps that I took in the painting process to ‘breathe life’ into my fist work of art this year:
The next (and last I think) step will be to tweak the high-lights on the rear gossamer wings…just a light touch of light…
It would not be too much of a stretch to equate this idea with the steady progress we have been making with the Skyaak project, especially since the invention of the innovative Skyaak DIY deuce, the down-loadable ring wing glider that you can grab, print, laminate, custom-decorate, cut out, build and FLY.
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