The Journey

I have loved Painting for more than twenty years now.  My current method of production I have been doing now for 4 years. I paint from Photoshop files I create myself using a rules based plugin environment called Filter Forge. I do about 1200 pictures a year digitally. I do about 9  large paintings a year.

here is a link to some of my paintings.
https://picasaweb.google.com/sirfenhong/Paintings4bk

I have three axises of sensibilities that roughly map where my work goes. One direction is color. Its' dynamic use and using chroma in place of value to get results for visual impact and emotional weight. Another direction is Patterning and Structure and Coincidence in terms of composition. Finally I also investigate the fine line where structure and rules turn to chaos. It is not as intuitive as you may think.
Some complicated constructions are at first busy and stressful to look at, but with perseverance yeild up congruences and march along visually to some kind of beat.  Other simpler pictures are dissonant and refuse to have harmony. I find this fascinating. My work has a kaleidoscopic quality because of the  tessellation transforms I use, and sometimes a sense of place because I base the work on pictures of real things.

I also letter a poem around the edges of each large painting I do. At first the letters were writing. Just sharing a bit of prose. It is a way of displaying my poetry as a value added, and the difficulty of the lettering keeps me sharp. Now they are more like little paintings in and of themselves.

My pictures expose the degree to which we habitually impose order on what we look at.

I love above all making beautiful pictures. I love the sensual quality of oil paint, and the luxury of working time because oil paint takes days to dry. I love the little surprises and discoveries that happen while a painting is in the making.

I am a champion of delerium.

I also have a brand new body of figurative work that I will post about separately.

I think this is a good introduction of what I am trying for in a macro sort of way.
This Blog is a continuing conversation about not just the ideas but also of the methods of painting, what brushes I like, how I go about canvas framework construction, and what I understand about the paint film, sealer coats and on and on and on......

Namese.
Doug Angleton
"harness craziness"