An elephant from my Animals in chairs series:

An Elephant from my coffee and tea series.

I have been finding August rather busy and now with my happy intake into #sndbox, I find I am adding another level of participation to my busy Summer. It is one I am very happy to add to my busy time, but because of it I feel I should still endeavor to post fairly regularly. Thus, sharing two works from my previous series seemed appropriate.

My animals in chairs series were quite popular as they do well as stand alone art as graphics on things, such as tshirts and phone cases. It was even quite popular as a shower curtain.

My Coffee and Tea series, featuring coffee or tea obviously, was also of course animal and figural heavy. My first love is the female form and the animal, so it stand to reason in any 'series' I undertake, they will be the key players.

I love STORY in art.

And by that I mean I love art that leaves a sort of open interpretation of a storyline to the viewer. A sort of tableaux vivant of characters on a stage frozen in time that we walk in upon; left up to us to interpret what has come before and will will follow.

I even find abstractions to fill this love of Story in Art.

I cannot help but spin webs of a world on say a microscopic level swirling about in the colour and forms of abstractions. But, art does allow us that: Personal interaction. And I love that about it, we all bring our own 'baggage' and view of the a world to our viewing art.

The artist can set up their view of the world in their piece, but it is the viewer who sees his own life and story in it.

Well, I shan't rattle on today, I just wanted to share a couple of older pieces featuring elephants today. Probably because we were lucky enough to get a thunderstorm yesterday and the rattle and boom of the thunder in the house always makes me picture giant elephants trampling about outside.

It was lovely to feel the cool air after the rain and it thankfully broke our heatwave.

Although this is an older picture from last year, it demonstrates a normal night for us here at Toad Hall in the Summer: Wine and beachfires and the smell of Hive account@winstonalden pipe or cigars.

But, with the heat we have been having they have been tapering off, but last night we were able to partake again. Soon it will be beachfire season come September. The days will shorten and the nights will cool.