Abstracts
Finds
Missing Janet… Feeling inspired by her sketchbooks <3
“Middle Earth”
This painting kind of bridges a gap between nonobjective and abstract. Color, shape, pattern are all jumbled in a chaotic arrangement. The shapes are somewhat suggestive of rocks buried under ground and so could be considered abstract. The artist’s concept of “Middle Earth” – a term borrowed from Tolken – is highly imaginative.
Ten to the Negative Forty Third (Planck Time 10^-43rd)
This painting can be considered non-objective rather than abstract. These two terms describe the intent behind the composition. A nonobjective painting uses color, shape, line without any reference to subject matter or recognizable images. An abstract painting can distort and exaggerate color, line, shape but usually there is some form of recognizable subject matter. Titles are always subjective, this title refers to my concept of the moments following what is known as the “big bang” in cosmology, when matter became visible. The progression of warm to very cool colors in the composition suggests temperature change and evolving matter. The many fractured shapes with radial directionality suggest chaos and a restructuring of material. In nonobjective and abstract paintings anything goes, there is a freedom implicit because there is no one right answer or way of depicting a concept.
Gala Detail
Gala – a close up of a recycled rose.
Cropping is a lesson in composition. All the parts still need to work together with a center of interest, directing the path of the eye to establish a flow and rhythm, keeping the viewer engaged. This is a game allowing all the aspects – format, lines, shapes, colors – to support each other.
Bits & Pieces
A gazillion pieces of cut out paper (a collage) with a desert theme – it’s supposed to represent a Palo Verde.
Basically a complimentary color scheme, bits of red and green. The black is a form calligraphy, in the sense of curvilinear shapes, suggesting tree trunks.
Loonminiscent
Hooray for Imagination!
What is a Non-Void?
SAWG “Experimental Show” entries
My entries for the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild’s 2014 Experimental Show
In this painting the mat is incorporated into the main image with bits of phrases and letters. (Click image to enlarge)
“Bits of QTC*”
*Quantum Temporal Cosmology
This painting has been “recycled” using bits of letters and words to describe the dimensions of color.
“Gala”
Ten to the Minus Forty Third (Planck Time)
Abstract watercolor by Janet Tifft
The singularity, the instant of the Big Bang, the beginning of time and the universe, the spark of life… Expressed in an abstract design using random shapes and changing colors. This painting evolved on its own. One space suggested the next, one color morphed into another. What fun it was!