Tempus Wanderer

This painting by Dan Sprout reminds me of lakes in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. The long brush strokes and predominantly blue pallet inspire a tranquil scene beneath a beautifully rendered sky.

Completed in a landscape orientation, this abstract captures anxiety in play during a panic attack in transcendent hues of blue, teal, and purple. The mind begins spiraling due to a single or set of trigger(s). Additional emotions, such as fear, frustration, pain, and anger, infiltrate the mind and the anxiety spins out of control, leading into a spiral of emotions gradually fracturing into a full panic attack. In this abstract painting, watercolor techniques lead to a digital artwork with emotional depth. 

Vivid green shades of jealousy aggregate and swirl into the depths of darkness, demonstrating the emptiness associated with envy in a watercolor style. Envy yields new meaning to the phrase "green with envy." This simple design was painted after an engrossing experience involving jealousy of a colleague. The event gradually led to the sinking realization that the working relationship was in jeopardy unless the envy were to be overcome, hence the title and content of this piece.

I saw this gorgeous example of an abstract realism painting Winter Morning by AppleHouseArt on Twitter. It reminds me a lot of the snow covered roads compacted by traffic due to the lack of snowplows on those backroads in the Rocky Mountains or the Appalachia.

Inspiration: Consider a group of friends who are sitting in a bar or in the backyard of a neighbors’ home around a fire pit, casually talking about world events. Throughout the discussion, you are able to observe their stances on various events, people, places, and things mentioned in the conversation and those not specifically mentioned but touched upon. Some of these conversation points clearly compare and contrast, revealing those with agreeing and disagreeing stances on the topics at hand. There are those who remain quiet as well on the fringes of the discussion. Such a conversation and its participants inspired this Dance of the Paints, where conversationists  interweave their topics in a discussion and clash or interweave with others points in an elaborate dance of viewpoints.

A field of sunflowers set in a mountain valley during a day in autumn. A forest with changing leaves rests beyond the sunflowers under a daylit sky with a crescent moon. This scene was inspired by a field of sunflowers set in front of the Sange de Cristo mountains during the Fall in a location near Cimarron, NM. This digital artwork features brushwork similar to oil painting in an abstract-realism design. 

An abstract digitally painted in reflection of negative emotions burning within prior to dispersing tranquilly into the ether in dazzling hues. The mix of colors eventually seem to pop out of the artwork due to the airbrush technique and color choices and mixtures. This was inspired by envisioning the plasmic flares jettisoned from the sun and how they travel through space to collide with other celestial bodies like the Earth. This digital artwork features an airbrush design and is especially suited to metal prints. The grains in the metal yield a holographic effect to this colorful design.

A fig tree leaf and stem abstracted into two dimensional space in a watercolor design. This digital artwork features varying shades of green in representation of the veins and structure of a fig tree leaf.

Pastel hues of paint battle for space in a watercolor design, similar to individuals or animals competing for space and resources. This paint splatter features a digital watercolor design in pastel colors.

Based on an experience in which an emotional burst occurred due to achieving graduation with a graduate master's degree. Sadness for departing from friends and colleagues at the university. Fear at the unknown and transition to a new job and location. Joy and mirth at the prospect of new opportunities and achieving such a milestone. Such are the emotions when embarking on a new journey, as captured in a watercolor style. 

Against a background of variegated crimson, green and yellow paint blots spread over a field of red and reach for the other color, similar two different persons or differing personalities attempting to understand the other. Though different, the two colors share an overlapping, complementary color space. This digital artwork features a watercolor design.

Abstraction of a feather into the realm of digital media. This watercolor digital design features a range of colors. In this particular artwork, I experimented with two different brush strokes and  colors ranging from purple/pink to red/orange. This was based on observations of a feather which exhibited none of the colors included naturally. The coloring was inspired by noting the iridescence induced by direct sunlight onto the surface of the feather. Feel free to check it out if you wish.