Alex Grey

Alex Grey
Check out this artist's website. He has done artwork for the band Tool etc. He also has a great documentary you can view from netflix called The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors" where he describes his inspiration to paint. It's interesting and a lot of fun to watch!

Autumn Tranquilino Art: The Night is Mine

Autumn Tranquilino Art: The Night is Mine: "I have tried to go to bed earlier all my life. Finally when I hit my thirties I realized it wasn't working. I paint and play music by myse..."

The Night is Mine

I have tried to go to bed earlier all my life.  Finally when I hit my thirties I realized it wasn't working.
I paint and play music by myself at night a lot.  I have a balcony that overlooks the street and I usually keep the door to it open at night when I paint.  I've learned to take frequent breaks while I
paint and I will stand on the balcony and stare at the night sky.  I play music and stare at the different sky formations that each night brings.  My favorite music right now to do this to is Tv on the Radio and I like when the moon is out and the clouds are moving fast.  Late at night most people are home sleeping or watching television and the neighborhood is finally mine alone.   I don't feel alone at all while I paint and watch the sky and I feel the whole atmosphere tie together and weave the background for my work.  It's at night when I can become most inspired and can detect  the fine line where the divine sleeps and where I am awake.  Impressions are subtle yet always there ready to aid.  I still wish sometimes that I were a "morning" person because the day lends itself so that I could get a lot of things done.  But my best works are usually created late when the town has been sleeping for hours and music is drifting through my balcony door into the night:)

Walking Through a Summer Dream

Art affecting dreams.....dreams affecting art

Here is an excerpt from a book I am reading called "Art in the Twentieth Century" that I think really rings true about painting......
    " The problem of suffering is an eternal enigma that can be concealed under various disguises as
as well as revealed in it's true nature, but its reality strikes us at every moment.  I am certain that for
some of us this is much more deep-rooted feeling and represents a much heavier personal burden
than for others .  Perhaps I am doing nothing but attempting, as in primitive art, to exorcize suffering
by painting it."       *  Ben Shahn

The Lucid Warrior-Gnostic Experience

Gnosis: direct experiential knowledge of divine reality

When I decided to try a hand at taking some simple snapshots I realized something really neat.  I went to Pt Defiance Park in Tacoma to take pictures of dahlias last year.  They plant hundreds of them and they bloom in the late summer.  I love them and they motivated me.  I saw so many photographers snapping shots with their professional cameras at the same time.  I'm sensitive so I felt bummed out with my cheap digital camera.  I snapped a bunch of shots anyway and had a great time staring at the flowers and putting the camera up to them.  When I got home and loaded the pics on my screen I noticed something.  It was that the camera responded and took the pictures on a more personal level than I had imagined.  It was as if the flowers were responding to my eyes and vice versa.  What happened was really a breakthrough in that it didn't matter if there were a bunch of people taking the same shots. My shots of these flowers would always be entirely different because of the way I personally viewed them.  This realization has proved true in all types of art including painting, music and writing.  It has inspired me to start studying energy and physics to name a few!  It's been fool proof and it shows that there is infinite possibilities for infinite artists everywhere to show us something important.

Exploring the Unconscious Through Art and Music

I am new to blogging, but I had an idea of things I want to share with people.   I am a artist and a singer.  I have found interesting aspects of the creating process especially very recently when I create.  The rules seem to apply to both music and painting or drawing.   When I relax and let the art or music direct me itself, then the real stuff begins.....:)

On my blog I will be sharing my ideas, thoughts and experiences of opening up to this feeling.  I am reading a book currently where this has been called The Great Memory.  Please share any thoughts or your own experiences with me too!  I would also appreciate any advice on getting around and becoming a pro blogger.  Thanks....