Joseph Freshwater "Life of a River Beast #3"

Joseph Freshwater Life of a River Beast #3   This is a new painting i finished abstract. This is the first piece i really played around with mixing heavy body and fluid acrylic in the style that's developing for me. when i sat down i had no idea what i was planning to paint. Sometimes things explode on to the canvas for me and its not a long complicated process. Sometimes my art replicates how i live my life randomly guided by pasisons Exploding all over the place and going at something hard then lol i am done. my brother didn't like the burnt umber bars i painted across the painting but their was a really cool shadow from my windows that laid across the painting as i was working on it and i wanted to try and capture that moment in time so i just traced over it. I like it because you can see threw it underneath. Sometimes i do what i want with out thinking which is totally me for good or bad. Even though i spent like 5 hours painting and and all my paint in the process which could o ruined the piece but Eh. I hope you like it. the reason i put it as River Beast # 4 Is because i plan to paint a helmet and 2 other objects in the collector series for all my paintings. hope you brings you entertainment. i put a lot of hidden images inside the painting. One is Spqr the Roman tattoo i have on my shoulder. Several hidden Sea Monsters

This is my new abstract acrylic painting i just finished. I call It Mind Fog #4  The Overall set up is that the blue white circle in the center represents our earth just around the time humans are working towards commercial space flight. i put a sun way in the distance underneath the earth to give it depth. I added a ton of hidden images that should catch the eye and hopeful make it fun to look at. On the upper left side you might notice what looks like a snake eye when you notice the yellow teeth he looks like he is almost enveloping the earth this represents the challenges we have and will over come getting humanity into space. also under the blue earth if you change your view to think of it as a eye you will notice the teeth below it. this was meant to represent another serpent. i see serpents as the epitamy of beautiful and cunning. sometimes as a species we are cold blooded but the beauty of our species and our intelligence shows threw. this piece is dedicated to one of my favrite big personality richard Branson and all the people who work with virgin galactic to make commercial space flight a reality. i am a huge supporter and think its the right step for us.

" If Edgar and Allen robbed you would you be Poe"

Here is the inside of my new glass painting when lite up. thought id give a close up so you can see the hidden shapes and fun stuff. Also i don't try and make so much dark or scary art i normally have no clue what i am about to make when i pick something up and start at it. Halloween is my favorite time of the year and i kinda like pumpkins so i guess lots of my art just tends to be darker. Im currently working on one like this but with more of a sea theam using blue led lights when i can find ones small enough. This peice is called "if Edgar and Allen robbed you would you be Poe' tribute to one of my fav creative types. See other posts below to see what the vase looks like in the day vers what it looks like at night when its lit up in the dark.

If Edgar And Allen Robed you would you be Poe

This is my first time painting glass i call it   "If Edgar and Allen Robed you would you be Poe"  Tribute to one of my fav creative people. I am starting to have a lot of fun with Light and dark in my paintings. i have a few ideas i am working on using fish tanks as canvas because of their three dimensional property's. also i am working on a way to be able to paint bar codes into my works so when scanned with a smart phone you it will bring you to webpages that make the art interactive. Anyone who likes my art here you may send me a friend request on facebook. i like to know new people. also let me know if you can see any fun hidden images i try to pain into my works. One ill give you the teeth on this guy are made to look like little people doing a dance around a fire.

 UPDATE from old post
One idea i had for a painting i had gotten a few years ago when i was at target buying a mop outside while it was raining. I had just got done watching scrubs and happen to find the janitor character very entertaining. I thought a stone statue image of a janitor holding a mop up to the sky while it was raining would be cool. he would have a   look on his face like "Dont Worry I got it". then just to add some more flavor underneath the stone base of the statue in the painting some etched in words would read a personification of the sun and the tide. I just like to create images of places i think would be cool to hang out at. Here is the writing that would be etched under the stone statue in the painting

Each day he spent along the tide
Wondering today what depth she lied
Her secrete shared
his pain was deep
their stood his soul a withered heap
Lovers breeze did bend to kiss his eyes
lovers pain did tend to his demise
His love the sun
his mask the tide
their placid love to us they hide.

this image if it was a place would be somewhere id like to go read a book. Just got done sketching the outline for this one on canvas. its fairly weak sauce put ill post it anyways as a timeline from where i started to how far i plan to go. this might be one of those images i keep re painting as i get better and better. Update Now that i have a little more experience under my belt on the technical painting side i have started to work on this. iv found this to be one of my favorite painting ideas and think someday it will be a really great painting. The feel behind the look "Dont worry i got this" Is an emotion most people can relate to.

My Dream idea that i would like to find a way to make into a fine art painting

have you ever played air guitar like bill and ted do in there excellent adventure ? I had a weird dream that i would love to find a way to work into a painting. Ill explain the dreams concept on a small scale so you catch the idea but then well take the concept to a global scale. So heres what i would do if i hand the funds. i would take a shopping mall and deploy hundreds of thousands of sensors every few feet through out the mall each with a unique sound attached to them. then i would rent or sell special gloves that have recorders and speakers on each finger where a person could run threw the mall and literally pluck the air to produce a musical sound. the recorder would not only play the sound allowing them to create music but it would record the sound allowing the person to run threw and discover and collect different key note through out the mall. this adds collectivity to the entertainment venue and gives a person a reason to go back time and time again. Fun Dream idea right but now lets take the last idea and apply the concept globally. if a government with space access could use gps type satellites to grid sensors or another technology that would work with the gloves to produce different sounds all over the world. they could sell the gloves at a alarming rate. country's all over would buy them and the country who produced the idea and had the capital to keep it up and running would make jillons of dollars to pump into what ever they wanted. many people across cultures would buy these because it has the collect ability of different notes and the universal langwage of music. Diffrent parts of the world on gps would have diffrent collectable sounds giving benifit for collectable toursium. : ) So i know the idea sounds crazy but most good ideas start out crazy. Ill find a way to paint this concept into some fine art and maby someday someone with the funds will bring the idea into being and hook a broke brother up for the idea : )

Whats Light When Dark (My New Painting Idea)

Thought up a new painting idea i started working with last night. The view is from a person sitting in the very center back of a city buss looking towards the front down the asile. One side of the buss is slightly darker then the other side of the buss This is clearly divided bye a edge in the center. Their is a person standing in the middle of the line which divides light and dark. Half of their body is human the other half is skelton depending where they enter the dark or light side. All the people on the dark side of the buss are skeltons and all the peaple on the light side of the buss are human looking. Any part of someones body that goes over the light to dark line is visa versa. The painting is all about how culture and people all have a duality of light and dark to their personality. My Bi Polar creative rage at its best eh lol. Untill next time...Got Milk ? Hell no i got iniative..it tastes better with cookies...go get some : )