Breaking Through a Creative Funk
I’ve been having a little bit of a struggle getting back into my painting as of late, and this has been going on for quite a while now. This happens to me whenever I am encountering a lot of...
View ArticleEnergy Meditations
I was drawn to walk up to where the river cuts into the west hills tonight. Once I got to an area where the sound of the water was strong and burbling, I remembered a suggestion to hold my arms open...
View ArticleAcrylic Pouring Medium Process: Evolving Tree Paintings
In my painting process, I like to start things off by pouring acrylic paint on the panel or canvas. It gives me something to work with, instead of the blank white staring back at me. I’m in an...
View Articlenaked stream
I am the river, you are the flame that rises within my naked stream. Cool, liquid fire floods my banks that once ran dry. Holding each other at the river’s edge, we harness the energies of ebbing and...
View ArticleRain Deer Awakening
I crossed a deer on my walk tonight. Every time this has happens to me, it comes as a complete surprise and opens me up to the wonder of the moment. And in that moment I realize that my last thought...
View ArticleProcess of a Painting: “From Parched Earth”
Here’s a visual documentation of the process of my latest painting of a cactus flower (click to expand images): I began by pouring liquid acrylic paint onto a stretched canvas, then roughly outlined...
View ArticleThe Nesting Tree
“Homecoming”, by Robin Urton I am a tree, standing bare, A gentle perch for your owl’s stare.An opening within my chest, I let you wade within and rest. And as we kiss beneath the barkOur shadows merge...
View ArticleWater… (Acrylic Pouring Technique)
I’ve been thinking about water quite a bit lately. I walk to a nearby river almost every day just to watch it flow and to feel myself in flow. So now I am contemplating how to paint it, and it occured...
View ArticleHealing Waters
“Healing Waters”, by Robin Urton Pulled like a magnet, she walks in daily journey to the healing waters. Enduring spirit, she knows the pain of a broken body and the heart’s losses yet constantly...
View Articleanimating my painting process
Well, I’ve sort of fallen down on my posting habit for quite a while. So to catch things up a bit, I’m posting a couple of animated gifs of paintings I’ve done. It’s not quite the same as having a...
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