Just a brief word or two

Just a brief word or two here.

First, please check out all of my paintings here-- the digital medium paintings as well as the traditional media paintings.

As a rule of thumb (and there are exceptions to this rule, such as the post you're now looking at), each post contains 1 or more of my paintings. So to view each of my paintings at this site, simply scroll down the page from post to post (painting to painting) until you get to the bottom. Then, right there at the bottom of the page, click "Older Posts" to check out the next batch of paintings. Go on like this, until you've checked out every one of them!

To get a somewhat larger view of a painting, simply click it.

Secondly, please find "Sidebars" near the upper right hand corner of this page and, just beneath, click "links you might want to check out".  There (inside the "links you might want to check out" sidebar), you can access and enjoy a music video that shows my colleague Tony Burress improvising on his harmonica while the wonderful Dr. Roland Carter accompanies him on piano.  You'll also find links to a couple sites belonging to my art tutor Mr. Bradley Wilson, while yet another link will take you to a website filled with paintings by my colleague Mr. Jerry Morrison.

If you wish, you can check out the sidebar about Cross Plains Community Partner, wherein you'll find out about the services Cross Plains provides for the Dalton, Georgia area, and for people with developmental disabilities.

Those are but a few of the interesting-- and relevant-- items you'll find up there in the "Sidebars" section.

Most of all, however, I'd simply like to hear from you about my artwork. What do you think of my digital medium paintings? My traditional media paintings? How do you think they compare? Any favorites? If so, which ones are they?

What else strikes you?

Please comment! And thanks for stopping by; tell your friends about this site.

See you later.

"Tall Flowers", a chalk pastel by Andy Morgan; "Road Into Night", a digital medium painting by Andy Morgan.

Tall Flowers (chalk pastel)

Road Into Night (digital medium painting)

 

"Untitled 86", an acrylic on paper by Andy Morgan; "Mid-August 2007 (aka 'Circle Painting')", a digital medium painting by Andy Morgan.

Untitled 86 (acrylic on paper)

Mid-August 2007 aka "Circle Painting" (digital medium painting)

"Fish #2", an acrylic on paper; "7 Flowers", a watercolor on paper. Andy Morgan, artist.



Fish #2 (acrylic on paper)



7 Flowers (watercolor on paper)

 

"Duck", a traditional medium painting by Andy Morgan.

"Dad's House", "Computer Monitor", "Somewhere Atop Lookout Mountain" are digital medium paintings by Andy Morgan.

Dad's House (digital medium painting)

These are digital medium paintings. This (digital) medium is further described in one or two of the posts above and below this one. Suffice it to say, though Andy's digital paintings are completed using the computer paint program and touchscreen, they're still painted manually, so to speak. The touchscreen acts as canvass, the paint program provides the palette, and (for Andy) the tip of a plastic pen barrel or pen cap acts as paint brush. As he paints, he works his paint brush (pen barrel or pen cap tip) manually from side to side and from top to bottom of his canvass (touchscreen), much as he would on any traditional media painting. (Or is it from side to side and bottom to top?  Or center-out?  Or outside-in?  Andy seems always to have a very definite strategy in his approach to his subject, and it seems sometimes rather complex to say the least.)  Andy now works almost exclusively in the more traditional media, however-- chalks, watercolors, etc.

Computer Monitor (digital medium painting)

Somewhere Atop Lookout Mountain (digital medium painting)

"Ships At Sea", "November 2006", "Andy's Room, Chatsworth, Georgia", "Road Trip", & "Van Gogh Portrait" are digital medium paintings by Andy Morgan.

Ships At Sea (digital medium painting)

November 2006 (digital medium painting)

Andy's Room, Chatsworth, Georgia (digital medium painting)

Road Trip (digital medium painting)

Van Gogh Portrait (digital medium painting)

Usually, Andy uses the blunt (or not-so-blunt) tip of a plastic pen barrel or pen cap to complete his "digital" paintings, using pen barrel or pen cap to manually "paint" on his canvass (his canvass, in this medium, being the computer touchscreen). The computer's "paint" program provides his palette, from which he chooses and mixes his colors. The process is analogous to painting in traditional media. The pen barrel or pen cap acts as his paint brush, the touchscreen his canvass. Almost all, if not all, of Andy's collection of digital (or computer) paintings were completed 3 to 6 years ago; he's pretty much gone over to the more traditional media, since. By the way, the painting "November 2006" got its title from the fact that it was completed in November 2006. In case you were wondering.

"Untitled", "Snowman"& "Yellow Flower" are acrylics; "Van Gogh (Pastel)" is a pastel. Andy Morgan, artist.

Untitled (acrylic)

Snowman (acrylic)



Yellow Flower (acrylic)

Van Gogh (pastel)