This will be a short series. I created these a couple of months ago in September. The first few came to me easily. Then I found it difficult to recapture the gloomy mood of these early ones. I intended to come back and do more work on the series, but that never happened. The "next big thing" is not ready yet, so I dropped in this shorter series now.

Of course there is no rule that I must publish the entire series consecutively and then never return to it. That is usually how it goes, but it is not a rule. So I may revisit these in the future.

These images use darker, somewhat depressing colors, and shapes that seem impersonal, even intimidating. I like the overall gloomy feel it presents.

To the amateur psychologists out there, this has nothing to do with my personal mood. There are plenty of things in the real world to make me happy, sad, hopeful, angry, disgusted. My personal mood may affect my energy, my desire, to create art, but it does not inform the art that I create.

Think of this image as a fiction. I enjoy these darker pieces in a way similar to a novelist delights in creating a dark and wicked villain.

Starting a new series today, Industrial. Repeating patterns, generally darker and fewer colors. Hey, everything is not always unicorns and rainbows.

Again, rather than trying to add words to each post, and then only stating the obvious, I am going to stop talking and let the series introduction be enough.

Of course, comments and questions are welcome. Give me a topic.

When I was a young boy I liked to read superhero comics. My favorite lesser known character was Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange is a movie star now, but back in the early sixties he did not even have his own book. He only got a few pages each month in the back of Strange Tales comics.

Often times Doctor Strange would find himself in a zone between dimensions. The artist, Steve Ditko (better known for Spider-Man) would depict this strange zone with doors to other worlds and dimensions positioned at weird angles, with flimsy bridges between them, surrounded by plenty of sparkly and misty random artefacts. With all of this done in bright artificial colors, like a psychedelic drug trip. If you are not familiar, check out these cbr.com pages: Character Origin and Ditko's Doctor Strange Art.

For me, today's image, and the rest of the Strange Zone series, comes close to recreating the childish awe I felt from those early Doctor Strange comics.