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 Living Spirit Art -  My general theme throughout my work is to unveil or hint to a kind of "Divine presence" or "Living Spirit."   I saw somewhere recently in an article that the Earth was a kind of living thing.  Light plays a significant role in living things.  I use it as a metaphor how trees or plants with their limbs and branches, and blades turn toward the light or grow toward it, as I think our human desire to reach out and embrace something higher than ourselves.  This Living Spirit I see like a flowing stream of music with each color a musical tone.  My brush becomes my baton and I am the maestro.   I create Symphonic Movements Of The Living Spirit.  My goal as an artist is to help unveil this symphonic movement to the viewer that they may hear through the "eyes."

 Because of my memory issues I am going to do postings of each day.  Karen is home. All the pets are good. I am waiting for the gesso to dry for my next painting.  I ordered a supply of regular acrylic paints.  I want to get some iridescent paints to give the paintings a kind of ever-changing quality of them throughout the day, nothing dramatic, just very subtle.   I really love this painting.  I want to do more with flow, geometric designs, and feminine shapes.  Most of my paintings have a tree in them.  One of my "trade mark" subjects is with the female shape in a tree.  Oh, I also want to push "Living Spirit Art" as the theme of my work.  

Starting tomorrow,  Aug. 4th, 2020, I will do one painting a day for a year.  Along with each painting, I will write a little piece about the painting.  During this phase I also will be working on paintings that will take longer to create in addition to the daily painting.   Stefan Duncan Gallery will be opening in a couple of weeks.  The building's renovation will be complete in several weeks.  I also have to paint the walls inside my gallery and of course hang several dozen paintings.  I will be there during the gallery's operating hours with an easel painting in the corner of the gallery.   I am planning on doing a large abstract painting and in several weeks, a portrait of David Cook in my tree portrait series.  I will blog here everyday and less on Facebook.  The rest of the time will be for marketing for the gallery and for online. So, the goal is to have completed 365 paintings by Aug. 4th, 2021.   I hope you w...

I always began with all my work by painting the canvas black.  Then, like the Big Bang Theory with a stroke of color, I create a world.    

Tomorrow going to Mooresville's Main Street Antique and Design Gallery for a booth calling "Stefan Duncan Gallery" to open first week in January.  I need four walls to present the paintings, nice carpet, painting lights, a hanging system, etc. Going to be a busy week. I get the space Jan. 1.

Because of viewer reactions of a small painting with a red tree, I will be creating several red forest scenes next

FROM VAN GOGH GALLERY Vincent van Gogh lived more than 115 years ago, and yet his artwork is still altering the way mankind views beauty, persona, individuality, and style in art. His thousands of paintings and drawings have various characteristics that have been copied by thousands and duplicated by none. Van Gogh's unique life has inspired millions to become active in art. In fact, what many people today consider to be the archetypical "artist persona" is largely a result of his influence. Perhaps the most impressive aspect is that artists continue to mimic the style that Van Gogh created over one hundred years ago. The impressionists and post impressionists of Vincent's time influenced him greatly after he moved to Paris in 1886. The bright new palette reigned heavily over Gogh's previous dark muted color scheme. Van Gogh's use of this new impressionist and post impressionist style altered not only his work, but also all of art history. On...

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Stefan Duncan was dubbed "The American Van Gogh" by Van Gogh Gallery in 2001 and since has been acknowledged thus on Tv, magazines, newspapers, taught in schools and studied by art students around the world. He created the art style "Squiggleism".