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“Sky” was my second attempt at a new form of power tools art project: Using a leaf blower to push paint around on a page. My first attempt with this method didn’t really turn out but I learned a lot from it, leading to this one (and probably to future attempts). I custom mixed a […]

There was something I was trying to do when I created “Eye” earlier this month that I didn’t have the right materials to make happen. I went shopping and bought some stuff and I’m not certain that I got the right stuff, nor am I certain that I created what I intended to, but I […]

This one was created to troll my good friend Aims, who recently completed a couple pieces of digital art that featured flowers that were giving her trouble. After she declared that she was tired of flowers, I decided I needed to create something that was very recognizably a flower. It’s a step away from my […]

After creating “Mask” I wanted to give another shot to spinning a page with glue on it and then applying sand, which led to the creation of “Starburst.” This was mostly about playing with color just a little differently.  With “Mask” I spun the glue and then applied sand in a stripe pattern.  With “Starburst” […]

When I wrote about creating “Eye” I said that I didn’t get the spread of paint that I wanted because I was using acrylics that were too thick. I figured I could try pouring paints or thin out the paints I already have. Or I could use the glue I’d already been using for sand […]

Pretty much nothing about this one turned out the way I expected and I was pretty sure I was going to file it away without even posting it, until I took one final step and I think I love it now. I was trying to mix my #LetsPlayWithTheHammer technique with the sand art I’d done […]

Since my first attempt at a power tools art project, I wanted to try inverting my process. I began by spinning paint to fling it onto a canvas and I wanted to try starting with paint on a page and spinning it to see what would happen. It took me awhile to put together a […]

As I mentioned in my write-up for “Beyond,” I returned to my power tools art project to try flinging glue at paper and then spreading colored sand across it. There were some problems, though, so “Beyond” didn’t turn out quite the way I expected. I learned from that for “Spectrum,” however. The issue was that […]

I returned to my power tools art project roots to try something a little different. Instead of using a drill to fling paint onto a page, I wanted to try flinging glue and then dropping colored sand onto it. It ended up being more difficult than I expected but I got a couple of nice […]

After some time letting out my anger via art, I wanted to step away from that a little bit but that left me with something that I like but feels a little bit like a failed experiment. I’d been using bubble wrap to help control the splatter on my previous few pieces, and before that […]