About Spiritual Abstractions

Spiritual Abstractions is perhaps my favorite genre. I call these spiritual abstractions because of how they come to me and because they bring a message to me that spurs my spiritual growth. I use the phrase "Spiritual Abstraction" because they are both spiritual in nature and yet are abstractions of the five dimensional experience they bring to me.

When I start one of these paintings I have no preconceived idea of what I am about to paint. I first select colors to start with, then meditate a bit, and when I feel moved I start to splashing color one the canvas until I feel it is time to stop. Then I study the painting while it dries, watching the colors move about, changing in shape and value. Once the painting is dried I now study it to see what image come to mind.

This study some times produces results immediately and other times it can take days. And on a few occasions I just have to start adding paint where it feels like more paint is needed, and then an image comes to mind.

Once I can see the suggestions of an image I work to make a composition of the image using traditional design concepts and techniques. This process is not always easy because splashing approach is very free form with absolutely no attention to things like design, composition, or color value. Thus some of the paintings fail to conform traditional composition design, yet I strive to make them interesting and balanced.

When I have finished the composition I let it dry and meditate on it to get a sense of its meaning and it's name. I never sign one of these works until I get it name. Once I have signed it I next attune it to radiate healing energy. An pray that it brings to you the viewer, the peace it brings to me.

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About Splashing Technique

One of the painting techniques I use I call "Splashing". This is really just free form applications of paint onto the canvas. I typically saturate the canvas with water then start to apply paint. (Hence the name splashing.) Applying the paint can mean doing thinks like flicking it onto the caves, dribbling it, placing random strokes here and there. I can involve using a spray bottle of water or sometimes alcohol. While the canvass is still very wet I might tilt it to move the colors around and to blend them. I might also pull colors off the canvas by paper towels or sponges, or other ways.

Once the paint has dried a bit I might use a spray bottle with a heavy spray and make water droplets on the canvas. Or I have used things like bubble wrap, wax paper or cling wrap laid atop the canvas and weighted down.

All of this is done in fun to produce a thin layer of paint that becomes the foundation for the rest of the painting.

I use this technique with both water colors and acrylic paints. The tricky bit with water color is that water color is not opaque this means that I can only make the surface darker I can not introduce lighter colors onto of current colors. (This is not 100% true, there are techniques but they involve either scratching the paper, or introducing an opaque paint on top of the water color. I do not find either of these to be satisfactory so I typically don't do them.) I like water colors because of the way they move when wet, and because of their translucent effects. But because of the transparent nature I don't often use them for my Spiritual Abstractions.

On the other hand, I have discovered how to use acrylic paints in this splashing technique such that they are almost like water colors. The advantage of using acrylics rather than water colors is that it is easier for me to add both light or dark colors to convert the canvas of splashed colors into a composition.

Often when people look at my acrylics they think they are water colors. See if you can tell, looking at the paintings in this gallery, which are water colors and which are acrylic.

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About Attuning for Healing

In addition to being an Artist and a Software Engineer I am also a Energy Worker. An Energy Worker is one who helps create energy patterns around others to assist in their healing. I do not take credit for the healing rather it is the recipient how allows the energies in that is the healer.

I work with several energy modalities which include but is not limited to energetic DNA, light bodies, axitional lines, dream work, chakra balancing, healing touch for animal, cranial sacral and I am a ReiKi Master/Teacher. I use these skills to attune my paintings with healing energies.

The simplest way to describe "attuning" is to relate it to a meditative process or a prayer where I focus all my attention to loving healing thoughts and then direct all of this attention into the painting. This infuses the painting with these loving and healing energies which then radiate outward from the painting affecting the environment and those within the environment.

All my attunements are done with respect to free will and with the intention of causing change through grace and ease. This means that if you are open to this the energies will work with you graceful and easy manner. If you are not open to it, or don't want a healing then there will be no effect. Though you may find the environment where the painting is hanging will become more peaceful.

In addition to attuning the original works of art I also attune all of my reproductions. The reproductions are attuned in the same manner as the originals and will have the same effects.

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