"A PORTLAND STAR"

ART STORE RENDERINGS

I spend hours in art stores, wandering the isles, looking at the different products and imagining what I could create. Often art stores display work by their clients or employees. Sometimes you can also find interesting accidental art. Such was the case recently. Below a neatly organized case of color markers were try out pads. Test marks filled the pads. Who did these, I wondered? Was it an emerging or famous artist, a student or a child? It was a collaboration of many who did not know or meet each other. Random acts that somehow had become refreshing found art.  Unbounded marks free of pressure to create great things. They were all beginnings. Some would take the markers home and make great art, other doodles of wild imagination or commercial renderings. Below are photographs of the test pads. They reminded me of what Picasso’s once said,  “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

MARIE EVE

BIG SUSHI THOUGHTS

CHARACTERS IN THE CORNER

Lives are often lived out in quiet moments of thought or plotting of the next move. All done in the corners of our being...

BLACK CLIFFS WANDERING

MONDAY MORNING