I have been making quilts- that are really large canvases in some cases. Here's a very busy piece called "Code Talker" - It has an oil painting to go with it, which is not yet finished.
I have some videos up called The Circle of Integrity of Art- in which I take my work through three or four stages until I know I have an image or subject as I want it. Each of my art quilts is part of one of these sets, and leads to two oil paintings, and sometimes smaller drawings.
I'll put a photo of this complete set here when I get it more organized. I plan on giving the quilts and some other aspects of each set away, and I keep the paintings. Each set has a whale painting as the main (resulting) image.
I've done many of the whale paintings already- so the quilt sets are actually backing up the image, as if I have taken apart my thinking as to how I got to such a simple whale painting (with so many thoughts as I paint).
#903 Orca (Killer) Whale in oil on canvas, 6 x 18
Orca seems to go with this busy quilt - the other painting is of a crow, the quilt images are fish, eagle, jeep - and as I said "Code Talker", I can assume that all of my thoughts when painting the Orca were about Code Talking. The crow painting is called "Crow has the Secrets"
Even though I am "backing into" my own thought process, an Orca would see a jeep on land perhaps, would see crows, maybe an eagle - it's all as if I have been seeing my painting through the eyes of the whale. And the crow has the secrets.
Before my epilepsy got as bad as it is now- I never wondered how or why I painted what I painted, I just did it. But having the whale paintings up, and seeing all these thoughts in the painting, has prompted me to define them.
The piece I am working on now is a Fin whale, will have a Civil War quilt, a Cape Cod coloring book, and grey wool socks as "thought" elements. 42 pair of grey wool socks. This is where the abstract thinking comes in- why would a Fin whale know about 42 pairs (6 wks worth) socks?
The Coast Guard-and a boat on a six week trip offshore. A pair of clean socks for each day-so, this leads me to hope maybe a Fin whale followed a Coast Guard boat around for awhile.-My epilepsy leaves me unable to speak English at times,which is probably why I'm defining thoughts on the level of literally "making" them- quilts, two paintings, Christmas items or gifts, aspects of life all behind a whale painting - as if you could peek behind the painting and see how it got there. Simple images do not mean poor painting imagination.
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