lifes journey

Having been playing around with my airbrush for around a week or so I have been intent upon investigating the very areas of paint that brought the change of direction,  what was it that I was unable to demonstrate from paint was a part of the world around me that sits beyond the fringe of what is normally noticed, the finite details of light and dark, the point where the transition from light to dark reaches the critical point where the balance of shade changes from light to dark and visa versa. I find that an attempt to describe my explorations are hampered by normal vocabulary even, where words are insufficient to communicate what it is that can only be transmitted through the medium  visual, instumental or mathematical, only through an alternative understanding does it make sense to me; through its physical limitations paint did not give me the opportunity. With the airbrush the paint is almost vapourised spreading the paint evenly, through occasional adjustment of the ...

It is said that it takes around 10,000 hours to master something, that being the case I have 9988 hours to go with this new direction. Choosing the airbrush, which arrived at the middle of last week, was a painstaking search not only through the many websites that exist to provide but also the choice of airbrush amongst many, as if that were not enough the compressor had to match the airbrush;  with my pre-planned requirements, borne of many hours of ''video airbrush tips'' from U-Tube, my job was made somewhat easier. The new airbrush arrived and resembled something  more akin to a carefully crafted surgical instrument than a simple tool for art it begs to be used in the best possible way, I had already had a video tour of an airbrush factory in the States so I knew that it was all hand made making it all the more special to me. The first job of course was to pull it apart which I did several times, this is important partly because the care and maintenance of the...