Tag Archives: fear
Sketch Book Series: Blind Drawing – Scared Man (2019)
Feeling-Related Watercolor: The Ugliness of Getting Old (2017)
Feeling-Related Watercolor: Fear – Dream Portrait (2016)
Feeling-Related Watercolor: Watching a Scary Movie (2016)
I painted a lot of watercolors in 2016. This series is comprised of the ones that portray explicit emotions.
Fear of Falling
Today’s study is about fear. It’s not about being afraid to hit the dirt, but rather fear for those getting older and gradually losing what they once had. There are transitions in life: from being a pre-teenager to teenager hood; from being a student to working for a living; from being a worker to being […]
Birthday Diminishment
I’m having a milestone birthday today. It’s not like it used to be. Nobody knows what I was like when I was a kid any more. They’re all gone. I won’t have to listen to Dad’s yearly reminiscence that I made him miss breakfast the day I was born; I won’t get a call from […]
Ugly, Ugly Future
Today’s painting is in the abstract style. It represents something very real, and not abstract at all: the fact that each of the days to come has less promise and more ugliness.
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As with yesterday’s painting, I also made today’s painting a day before the US election. Its colors are on the red end of the spectrum. I suspect that most of my paintings in the foreseeable future will be more toward the cooler blue end. Not for any political reasons, but rather to portray the emotional imbalance I feel. I […]
Tight Rope of Life
When I was a teenager, or maybe it was when I had my first crisis of identity, my father shared one of his metaphors for life. “Life is a tight rope,” he said. I think he was trying to make me feel better by telling me about the first time he slipped off. At this time […]
