Live Painting

Here is my 4 hour Live Painting yesterday at the Bloom Room SF! I was so super excited to paint after a super stressful weekend. Painting is the best way to break from the human world and fly away to another realm. It only works if you are open to the present and jump to the opportunity to create something new and unique.

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A colorful quilt made of Walls and their Shadows!

When I am too tired to do anything, I like to lay down and spend sometime reviewing the photos I’ve taken. Currently, my photo album is up to 11,601 photos. The oldest photo is from a year ago, summer 2018. And the newest, is from today.

I am a compulsive photographer. I am constantly taking pictures. 70% of my photos are abstract shadows and street art with only 30% being personal photos.

Is my intention, to photograph things, people wouldn’t expect. Abstract shapes, shadows, dirt, stain, minimal compositions, etc. And to find beauty, elegance and grace in the most unexpected places.

As I review my photos today, in my Instagram page ( @cosmiccorners ) I noticed the beautiful and colorful grid they were creating.

I’ve decided to make a quilt with my photos. And named them after the place where I snapped them.

And here is the first one:

“Sunset District” a quilt made of shadows and walls.

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Art Battle - Painting

Last night, I attended another Art Battle event. The challenge, as always is to make a painting in 20 mins. The first round, I started painting some abstract geometry, than I destroyed and turned into a face, than I destroyed the face and finished with a huge EYE!! 👁 People said they enjoyed watching how my painting transformed.

The second round, I started painting a portrait, but I changed it and changed it… and the second painting is the result!!

This event is a competition based on votes. And most of the artists rehearse the painting and paint something “people will like” -usually like animals or faces. But I am not a crowd pleaser, and don’t care about winning as much. I never know what I am gonna do. I let the energy and the adrenaline of the moment take control of me! And because of this, I usually go through 3 or 4 different paintings in the span of 20 mins! Transforming from a figurative into an abstract, and abstract into figurative!! I really loose myself in the moment!!

This is what LIVE Painting means to me! Is a Live Performance! Is risking it, putting your soul and heart and jumping to the moment while others are watching!! Every time I do this, I learn more and more about me as an artist.

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Painting at Castro St. Fair

I got up early on Sunday morning, because I had to go and take down my show at Hotel Biron. After wrapping and loading to the car all my huge paintings, I made my way to the Castro Area to meet with the Artspan crew. Some how I managed to forget my easel, and I had to improvise using boxes and tape to hold my canvas down. Due to this, I abandoned the idea of painting the scenery and opted for some abstract expressionist painting!!

Here is the result of 6 hours of painting outdoors while other people are watching!

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Outdoor Painting

This past Sunday I had the pleasure to paint outdoors in Angel’s Island. This was part of a poetry and art event Quiet Lightning Poetry Park Events http://quietlightning.org/poetry-in-parks-2019/.

I don’t have much experience painting outdoors. And when I am painting I usually go for something unconventional or abstract. But the site and the view to the bay was so pretty! I was instantly inspired! I jump to the canvas and started painting the landscape, while listening to some beautiful poetry!!

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Ireland

I fell in Love with Ireland since my first visit back in 2010. Every time I go, I feel as if I just landed in the middle of a fairytale. I have the opportunity to visit little villages, located right in the middle of nowhere. At least is “nowhere” for me, who is unable to distinguish one green field with sheep from another green field with sheep. For a city person, the agricultural land is like a foreign language, written in a non-alphabetic script. However if I was to spend enough time living there, I would eventually learn to find my way around, like the locals did. Because no matter how wild, abstract or chaotic the environment is, we all eventually find some sort of order, sequence or a rhythm to follow.

But I rather not get too familiar yet with the landscape and instead, I want to enjoy the magic experience of being in the middle of nowhere.

Where twirling green patterns burst from everywhere, and drops of rain make everything sparkle, and you can hear the tin whistle, the pipes and the fiddles, traveling through the fields like children in a caravan. While the sun gets busy embroidering a rainbow across the Irish sky.