My year in art, part 2.

About a year ago, October 2022, I stopped posting to this blog. That was after two years of almost daily posts. I am not sure why I stopped. I suspect all the usual excuses apply; artist block, burnout, lazy, busy. I started up again in February with the short series Monochrome Minimalism. My focus was on abstract shapes, without color. Something easy to get going again.

Experiment 2023.1 followed, which consisted, in part, of coloring the shapes in the previous series. Both of these were a bit of a struggle. I did not have anything specific in mind. I was not trying to create a particular mood or image. I just creatively splashed the screen. If I liked the result and thought someone else would find it interesting, that was good enough. Still, despite that freedom, it seemed more like work than hobby to meet my self-assigned goal of one post a day.

I will however talk about this series in relation to other work I have published. Here is a list of all the art series published so far this year:

Monochrome Minimalism (February, 7 posts)
Experiment 2023.1 (February, 17 posts)
Experiment 2023.2 (March, 36 posts)
Textured Fractals (April, 9 posts)
Textured Scribbles (May, 8 posts)
50000 Rectangles (May, 33 posts)
Workshop 202306 (June, 29 posts)
Curve Textures (August, 21 posts)
Mish Mash Rush (August, 37 posts)

(tl;dr) I need to do more themed series.

The series description from Lazy Nights #1 fits everything in this series. I could point out that this one has a bright blue drip. But that is too obvious. It is better if you notice these things without me pointing them out. So I am going to suppress my urge to over explain.

I do not have a good place for this one. So I am dropping it in here

The next two are related somehow. But I do not know how to describe them

A Close-up.

Eye of the storm.

According to string theory, the universe is made up of tiny strings that vibrate and fold back on themselves.

The next few are based on these small twisted strings. Any similarity with physics is purely coincidental.

I like the dark and foreboding feel in this one. This color scheme and jagged lines could be the seed for a standalone series.

Thicker and messier

A little thicker.

Light weight layers, thin twisty lines.

Two more, mainly because I could not decide which ones to keep.

These have the same palette. However I mix up which colors go with which layers. Since the layers do not have equal coverage, the dominant color varies.

If each layer gets equal coverage in the final composite, the result is boring. I experiment with the ratio of final coverage for each layer. It is better if the later layers have less coverage and smaller fragments.