Friday, December 31, 2010

DEEP MEDITATION


In deep meditation, past all thought and ideas, the mind is receiving multidimensional rivers from unseen realities. Then, from this incredible, rich, full oceanic mind perfect thought waves rise and fall.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

BOOK COVER


This is one of the book covers I did for one of my wife's novels - we really like it.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

MENTAL BALANCE


Through meditation we have the innate ability to purify our mind and our surroundings. Then any action we take will have a certain elegance to it, no matter how mundane.

Monday, December 27, 2010

ABUNDANCE 12"x24"


The quality of pure being has no morality, but it can never violate anything. It is based upon total love, or freedom.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

AWARENESS


Through a flash of awareness, you know everything - car, tree, person, sky, etc. Your true mind knows itself completely.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

IT'S TOO MYSTERIOUS 24"X30"


Everything is in flowing change. We do not stand outside of this fact, but are part of this dynamic.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

UNCONSCIOUS SOURCE 24"X50"


Start of a new painting - very excited.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

TRADITION OF GREATNESS


I worked with the Raiders for over twenty years and I loved doing this project.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

FOGGY DAY


Am seeking simplicity and quiet order on this foggy day.

Friday, December 10, 2010

FREEDOM OF BEING


To forget the self is to resume our true nature in this moment. Everything is giving itself away to everything else. This is freedom of being.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS


A heart at heart's core, dancing and singing, in and out of the changing forms of all there is....

Sunday, December 5, 2010

SILENCE


It's all about silence.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

PURE IDENTITY


The infinite joy of its pure identity is expressed in the slightest glance, or sound.
ate groupings of gestalt formations flash forth out of a timeless mind. Triumphant and free, love is always freedom!

Monday, November 29, 2010

CONSCIOUS MIND


The excitation of light and shadow is asleep! Stillness pervades all form. If consciousness demands the exercise of its limitless potential then awareness demands the light of the sacredness of all existence just as it is now!
At a deeper level there is no division between the unconsciousness and the conscious mind or spirit.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

FANTASY STUDY


Fantasy art always points to the multidimensional, the simultaneous, that the physical oriented brain cannot grasp by adding or subtracting.

Friday, November 26, 2010

SWIFT


There is a mysterious intelligence spinning out unique patterns of creation moment by moment. Once created it never repeats itself.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

THE FINAL DESTINY


Sooner or later, consciousness will demand its own true self,
the love of God. No person can forever run away
from this epiphany. God will find God, that is life’s innermost desire.
Here all evil and hate, all suffering and resentment will be obliterated.
Illusion is hate, fear, ignorance…and isolation.
All guilt and petty self criticism dissolves in a love and freedom that runs through everything.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

JUDY


This is one of my favorite paintings. It's a portrait of my wife Judy, the love of my life.

Friday, November 19, 2010

GHOST FROM THE PAST


Here's a drawing I did of Arnold (about 33 years ago).
I met Arnold before he started his movie career. My wife and I became friends with him - he was a lot of fun! I did various promotional work for him and the painting of YELLOWHAIR THE MEDICINE MAN hangs in the Governor's office in Sacramento. I'm pretty sure it was Arnold's first fine art purchase.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

SOURCE OF EFFORT


If you can find the source of your effort and your life, everything you do would please you. This is very difficult in the modern world, because it takes a mind that is quiet and composed.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

STRUCTURAL DRAWING


Structural drawing deals with breaking any simple or complex object down to geometrical parts that will compose the whole form.
The awareness of negative space between the forms is important in right measurement.
The quality of line is determined by the awareness of turns and angles existing within the form.
Mastering this type of drawing allows the artist to become intimate with the thing observed.
Correctly realized, the artist and the art object become a new strong form of reality. This is energy directed with purpose and finesse…or art!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

THE MIND


If you can find the source of your effort and your life, everything you do would please you. This is very difficult in the modern world, because it takes a mind that is quiet and composed.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Collaborative work


This is the second collaborative painting Chet & I are going to do - it awaits one of his mysterious, psychological beings, in the center of the painting (where the two priestesses are looking up).

Saturday, November 13, 2010

A QUIET MIND


The greatest gift one gives to oneself is the ability to quiet the mind.

Friday, November 12, 2010

THE QUALITY OF BEING


Study - 12"x16"
This is a figure study for a large paining.
A mind that steps out of thought references can experience the vast quality of its being that is revealed in each glance! Here is absolute value.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

THE NATURAL ABUNDANCE OF GRACE


Painting 18X24
- Deep within the forest of our quiet mind there are hidden treasures unfolding here and now! Only a mind free from the movement of sorrow and fear can sit at the center of this mysterious outrageous abundance.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

GUARDIANS OF THE EARTH


Panting 19X16
Nov. 2 – Deep within the rivers of the totality of life, all forms drink and have their being in the same pure identity.
Naked and unashamed the mind of creation nourishes all there is with love. To drink from this dazzling peace is to be free from fear and isolation.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

UPON THE EDGE OF A DREAM


Painting - 18"X24"
Nov 2 – Here beneath the waves of everyday thought, or consciousness, unseen possibilities play like a jester in and our of arch type symbols. Dream art or visionary art explores the multidimensional consciousness that is rarely used by our race!

Monday, November 8, 2010

CATHEDRALS OF LIGHT



Painting - 30"X36"
30X36
Nov. 3 – Judy and I often walk in a park near where we live. We are always awestruck when we see the massive trees dramatized with the young vital light of morning. These trees are to us living cathedrals holding the sacred energy of creation, exploding in a pouring out of branches and leaves, demonstrating the strength and abundance of our nature.
When the mind is truly active (not with though but with dazzling attention) one moves and has his or her being in this amazing pure totality of love, or pure identity.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

JON BEINART ART SHOW


Jon Beinart put together a magnificent show! It was brilliant! And the level of artistic ability was incredible. The wild imaginative subject matter was harnessed and guided by masterful technical skills. So many great artists in one place, at one time. I was so impressed!
The people that are attracted to, and support his type of visionary, personal art are a prize in themselves. They are open, affectionate, non-competitive, non-judgmental and wildly enthusiastic! I just love these kids – kids is not accurate of course, they are mostly in their late twenties to early forties. A new, intriguing wave in the ocean of the race consciousness, these people are not owned by the status quo that’s for sure.
Along with so many notables, my son, the Great Chet was there. He and I collaborated in a tri-imaged painting. I painted the side panels, Chet working the center piece with one of his magnificent otherworldly entity portraits. He also designed an oval and border effect that tied the whole thing together…genius!...that kid was always cleaver beyond his years – even as a little guy. I’m hoping we’ll do more of this in the future…the two diverse styles and subject matter seem to form a greater reality in dark and light contrasts.
One of the highlights of the night was seeing some of my students there from our Saturday class in San Pedro…Tony, Lee, Allen, Carlos – these guys are body illustrators by profession and extremely talented artists themselves…and of course, Lindsey an art aficionado who helps run the class was also in attendance.
All in all the energy generated by these shows and this art could transform the landscape of our culture because it’s such a wildly creative adventure!
Jon Beinart presented a show of diversity and richness of personal reality. Great stuff!