Morning Blog January 23, 2025

Good morning everyone. I hope your week is treating you well. It's been unusually cold here in Texas, but we are staying warm the best we can. Its around 4:30 am as I write this. Seems I often wake up early, am productive for a bit, then fall back to sleep. The above painting I did this morning as I was waking up. I feel this may represent closest to something I saw in my dreams as I wasn't fully awake when I painted it.

I say painting, but its a digital painting I did on my Samsung Tablet. I find painting abstract helps both focus and calm my mind, especially as I'm waking up and waking thoughts all start rushing in. This is why I'm so glad I found art, and this blog.

I was journaling by hand using some fancy pens and nice notebooks. I still do for more personal things, but I feel that was a precursor to my blogging. I was only painting and painting several times a day. Now I find I paint, journal and blog, which I feel gives me a sense of variety and balance. And I think thats what this attached painting is showing, with the two eyes evenly on each side and the patterns and movement of the painting itself, I think its showing calmness and balance.

Maybe you get something else from it which is fine. One thing I try not to do is tell people what to see in my art, only my own interpretation of it. Feel free to comment below your own vision of what you see in the piece. Today, I have a few legal documents to write, but I don't have any errands to run. So we'll see what the day has in store. I hope all of you have the most excellent day and once again, thank you for stopping by!