So I finished this painting from the other day and a friend dubbed the style “computer-age impressionism”.  Yeah, I agree with that.  Click on it for a better view, though I gotta learn to take better pictures of my art.

I think one of the most fun things about having a blog is making up phrases and words.  If you google “computer-age impressionism” right now, you’ll only get Birmingham Verse.  Yep.  How awesome is that?

So this painting was intentionally commissioned for my friend Natalie.  She paints in acrylics and we agreed to do a “swap”.  She’s working on something for me, and I did this one for her.  She said she liked the earlier pixel landscape pieces, so I agreed to do another.  I’d been wanting to do one anyway.  I’ll tell you about what she’s working on when she gets finished and is ready.

I like the color palette here a lot.  I keep saying – imprecisely – that there aren’t any colors in this painting.  The main shades are all sorta between colors.  The top starts off pink and fades to a reddy-brown.  The bottom starts yellowy and fades to an orangey-brown.  The mystery landscape objects start reddy-brown and finish darker reddy-brown.  Not crayola, maybe.

I think part of the fun of doing these “computer-age impressionism” works is that I always try to make them a little mysterious.  There should always be some form in the picture that’s not quite obvious, just evocative.  I’m curious what people think this could be a picture of, besides what I think it’s a picture of.  I’d love to get an email from someone that says it looks like ketchup on pudding, Rapunzel’s tower, or whatever.  I always love the Rorschach Test nature of some of my paintings.  People say all kinds of wacky stuff about them that I wasn’t considering and I love hearing it all.