Well, it’s
been a varied and artfilled set of adventures and experiences for Martha and I
over the past few weeks.
While Martha
was taking the grand (kid) Art Tour of Texas including a wonderful stop to see
the outdoor Dale Chihuly exhibit at the Dallas
Arboretum (I really wish I could have been there for that), I was busy taking
photos and videos at three weddings and a funeral… Ok just one wedding and a
private party with a concert in the woods. I, also, carried out a number of
other creative art experiences, experiments and adventures at home and about
town.
Along that
line, I’m very pleased with the new direction I have been taking with my
abstract photo art. Having been a bit inspired by the digital art presentation
by Alicia Nutt the daughter of renowned landscape painter Don Nutt, I decided
to get back into Photoshop and experiment with new creative projects there.
Although, I
am not doing the same thing at all as she is doing with her graphic digital
painting, I was motivated to do some experimenting with painting digitally by
way using my own photos as a starting place. This new approach to digital art
for me seems to hold a lot of promise and I have ordered some prints on metal and
other materials that should showcase the depth and color of these new works
quite well. Look for these to be in a show sometime in the next few months.
A top priority
for this year has been to get our web pages up and running and with the help of
my son Austin of Cosmic Atlas http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/cosmicatlas , the Rod Daut Art Face Book page and the Rod Daut Fine Art web page at: http://roddautart.com/
are
now operational and getting more hits and followers every day. I find it
rewarding that a number of the likes and followers are coming to these by way
of the Salvador Dali’ http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/SalvadorDaliPage Face Book page … that’s pretty cool.
Since we
have both returned from out of state the art has continued. Martha is painting
another Central American woman and child painting and is doing some work on a
few acrylic paintings adding more depth and intensity to the colors therein. And,
she has of course jumped right back into helping the folks at the local
emergency housing program with art classes and some of their clay pieces are
firing in the kiln as I write. 
And, while
she has been painting and firing I have been culling, cropping and editing
wedding photos and now need to get back to producing a movie from two sets of
video from two cameras I shot at a private party with a concert at an
undisclosed location in the mountains of Central Washington. This will be a fun
and challenging project as there will be lots of editing and digital splicing
involved. The sorting out dual soundtracks should prove to be quite a bit of
fun… I can’t wait to get started on that.
Well, enough
for now… and as so many busy events and activities of summer have come to an
end, look for more frequent blogging in the weeks and months ahead.
'Liquid Steel' by Rod DautTweet
