090725 Ripples Blue 24″x48″ acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
After I finished Ripples Red I felt like painting another, bigger one. In the beginning I imagined it red as well but during the week it turned into a deep ocean like manganese blue. Like a wide deep blue sea inside.
Do you remember this movie “The Sea Inside” ( “Mar Adento” or “Das Meer in mir” I like the German title because it implies “within” instead of “inside”) by this oh so well-gifted Spanish director which name I always forget although I have seen all his movies ( maybe not all but a lot ) Alejandro Amenábar? It is about dying with dignity. I remember beautiful but empty, abandoned landscapes - a cold Atlantic beach shore and a person with an unmovable body chained to a bed but free in spirit and another person that was free to go where she wanted but seemed chained in her heart. Galizier Ramón Sampedro is disabled since his accident 27 years ago but leaves in his mind to visit his beloved sea.
This painting is as true to me as the red one – I could do the magic twice. After I finished it, I felt dissolved and ready to embrace a little break from painting. Over the past weeks I spend much time setting up the new web page ( so you can actually buy my art work directly from me – here and now – and I ship it around the globe 
) and was simultaneously engrossed in painting – the little down time comes as a gift. Sometimes inspiration comes in waves and it just rolls over me – I accepted it.
091227 Negotiation
091227 Negotiation 18″x36″ acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
Its different, I know but its fun. There is something about waves around stones or music or wave patterns in general that allures me lately.
The color selection was bugging me for a few months now. Whenever I was building a painting together in my mind it repeatedly went something like this:
The Green " Hey! what about yellow and green stripes in the background?"
The Yellow:"Or bubbles?"
The Green:"Or a gradient maybe?!!!"
The Yellow:" I knoooow! Stripes with gradient!"
The Green:" Riiiight!!! AND the stripes have different thicknesses! *clap hands* "
The Yellow:" Fantastic! *jump up and down* "
As you can see, quite annoying and and since it seemed the colors were already having a good time together I finally gave them a microphone and put them out there. Surprisingly the Pink and Cyan (especially the Pink
clung her hands aroundwouldn’t let go of the mic – the Cyan just went along with it and didn’t care much) were quite happy about this and I cannot see a way to pull them of the stage anytime soon.Happy New Year to you!!!