If you're new to reading this blog, it's best to slide on down to the first post and read backwards... well, you know what I mean. It's the story of how I came to do the abstract landscape series.

OK, so where I left off was that I was in the depths of imagining what my work could be if "anything goes", which was my new motto. The micro versus macro view of things was going to be a foundation, as well as drawing. But I couldn't possibly give up painting so it would have to figure in there somewhere, cause I love pushing that paint around!

Since I already had that pine cone popping around in my head I thought, well what about a pine forest. Then I'd have that micro thing going in the drawn pine cone as well as that macro aspect in the painted pine forest. Sounded cool to me.

I chose a square format because it's a compositional device that represents human thought... no perfect squares in nature. And I'd always loved it's contemporary feel even though I had heard from an art professor of long ago that it's pretty hard to work with. Anyway, it felt right.

It was time to pull it all together and see what it looked like. GULP! More later....