Abstract

Today's drawing is Creative Seeds.  It's about laying the ground work for what will be my artistic future.  The ideas's that I've never been able to logistically bring to fruition can now be easily executed, due to my new studio!!!…

I was just going through my drawings, organizing things and realized I had never posted this.  It's part of a series on music, well, part of a subset group that will be on musicians playing. All is well and very…

Despite the lack of postings here, I'm in the middle of doing some really wonderful and far more complex works than what I've been posting the past few years.  That said, it's a private world until it's all complete.  It…

I've been busy working on several large scale musical works.  They are nearly 4 feet each and coming along swimmingly :)  Despite the rather quick structural ease of each, the detailing is taking a couple of months. As with most…

Orchestrating a lot of ideas and pieces that are going into my current project.  For months and months I've been working on individual pieces of a massive work.  All sorts of test runs and problem solving, most of which I…

One of the beautifully lovely things about my current experimentations is that each piece feels like  a perfectly beakered bit of bliss.  Each work is a small player within a visual philosophic problem I'm attempting to find solutions to. This…

Much thought went into this and the others of this series.  I think I'll just let it poise itself for flight and keep the thought behind this mum for a bit. Britt

The Excalibur... the thing I love about it, is you know if you're the one and probably know before hand :)  Creating is very similar.  When you have your own voice there is no need to stumble around looking and…

Today I sat at the piano and instead of working on someone els's stuff, I worked on a piece I wrote on the drive in.  Getting into the keyboard went exceptionally well and it really felt fluid, like sea water…

I rarely create literal works but this one is gentle but nice reminder for a friend of mine to use his tremendous talent for the sheer purpose of adding to the progress of humanity.  In other words, write for the…

Down and Dirty.  This is a quick and messy sketch that will need to be realized again on better and larger paper.  Today's drawing is a culmination of numerous circumstances that keep slamming my brain on occasion.  Last night another…

Courtly Love: a love worth the greatest efforts one has to give, the farthest wishes one has to hope for, and the greatest prize one can reach for.  It is elegant, upstanding, demanding and life changing and all with the…

Every now and again I do an abstract self portrait of my state of being.  It's been a way for me to assess where I am in the grief process.  Below this are a couple of other's along the way...…

From top to bottom: Notes fall from the staff into the realm of instrumentation, are converted into sounds while being played before being put toward the listener's perception as a lovely ballet of melodic line.  I have to clean this…

What I love about this is that I tried something new in my arrangement: I placed a center-weight.  My work is designed on a very intricate balance like musical notes and they are not centrally placed on purpose.  Each line…

One of the great possibilities that can manifest itself in competition of any kind is the long shot. It doesn't just figure in the event itself, It's the configuration of how one gets themselves to that very moment.  It's the…

It was a very lovely trip... all of them. :) Britt

A representation of a piano and all the percussive twings, twangs and melodic strikes from all piano music played over it's existence, compressed in time. I was going to add three pedals below, but am still considering the composition at…

Not sure if I'm winning or losing this game in life but I'm tired of going around the board.  Had a pipe burst and long story short I'm moving my entire book, vinyl, cd, dvd etc..., etc... collection over to…

A little fun after a long week of pitfalls and ponderings.  Will be posting the entire story tomorrow.  Just needed to have a bit of fun, let loose and dream of the sea, sun and all the fun one has…

Ideas in construction... not bad for a quick sketch idea.  Will use the top half for a painting. The bottom has moments but overall missing the structural grace and spatial balance.  I could either complicate it into that state or…

After an incredibly busy couple of months, I finally managed to get some drawing in!  This past week, I've been teaching a class to middle schoolers on how to draw music.  It really was wonderfully fun and amazing working with…

I had a lovely lunch the other day with a friend of mine.  Being drummers, we inevitably landed on the topic of what we drummers gets out of playing with everyone.  He pointed it out it's all about that lovely…

I wanted to capture the feel of sound of an overture being performed in a lovely wood hall.  The musicians and instruments act as a singular unit and thus are abstracted as one.  Looking forward to transposing this onto 4…