Monday, March 7, 2011

Palette With Tangelo


Palette With Tangelo
Acrylic on board, 6" x 6"
$125 plus $6 shipping in U.S.
SOLD

I'm speechless today, so I'll let dancer/choreographer Twyla Tharp speak, in this excerpt from her book, "The Creative Habit":

"Like a jazz musician jamming for an hour to find a few interesting notes, a choreographer looks for interesting movement. I didn’t start out knowing this; it came to me over time, as I realized that I would never get to the essential core of movement and dance through a cerebral process. I could prepare, order, organize, structure, and edit my creativity in my head, but I couldn’t think my way into a dance. To generate ideas, I had to move. It’s the same if you’re a painter: You can’t imagine the work, you can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas—when you actually do something physical."

4 comments:

SamArtDog said...

Look at how that orange dances with the others.
Amen, Twyla.

Don Gray said...

Hi Sam--we got rhythm!

Debora L. Stewart said...

I love these small paintings. And someday I"m gonna get me one!

Don Gray said...

Debora--welcome to the blog and thanks for your nice words. I visited your website--you do beautiful work!