Abstract Tornado Fire Painting Inspiration and Art

Video showing inspiration and abstract art through expressionism

How do you express creatively what you feel when you feel inside? Imagination and existential forces creates the inspiration. The brush fires season has started up again and is a reminder of the Thomas Fire that came close to us and impacted so many lives a couple of years ago. “Firenado” is an attempt to capture that ‘feeling inside” in an abstract expressionist style of the fire tornadoes. By painting it abstractly it seems more real to me. I am trying to get to the core of what it is. I’m trying to paint the emotion of the sky and the fire storm in this contemporary painting, And the only way that it seems possible to do is to make it modern and abstract it - and then it seems more authentic to try and paint the excitement of it.

Abstract – semi-abstract Art

I title a lot of my abstract art as if they were landscapes. This is the way I actually see and think about them. To me, they are landscape paintings but I know others may not see the same things in them that I do. You may look at the painting and associate the image from something in your memory - recognizing a shape or form or color that reminds you of things past.

In the Masters? – Nope. No Golf. Not This Year

Didn’t Go to the Masters

What did they tell me when I asked about playing in the Masters?  Nope. Not this year – or any.  I’m not even in the PGA.   Who was I informed by?  My old golfing boss who ran the golf driving range where I had worked.   Twice I asked him why and the third time he told me:  “Well, when you putt you are trying to putt straight, just like you are shooting arrows.” He said, “with all your practice you’d think you would be getting closer to the hole.”  But I wasn’t.  I still hadn’t learned to hook properly either on the greens or on the fairways.  At least I don’t cry after my sixth putt to the flag.  

The fairway – I don’t spend much time there.  I’m usually off to looking for my golf ball on either the left or right side of all that nice green grass.  And I walk the course, never using a caddy.  I have enough people in a foursome to laugh at my play – I don’t want to be paying for one more person to join in on the laugh track.  I lug that bag myself – with two ball retrievers – just in case I break one.

I’m not saying I don’t take my game seriously.  I do – I do everything possible to lower my scores.  I go to the driving range almost every day to hit a bucket of balls, bouncing them off of the golf picker out around a hundred and sixty yards - which is about as far as I can drive a ball.   I take lessons from a golf pro.  At least I think he is a pro because he does wear Bermuda shorts.  And the best thing I do to lower my score is to cheat.  Yeah, cheat.  Some days you’d think I was playing soccer out there, the way I can kick a ball around.  And I am good with a pencil too.  I certainly know how to add.  But I am much, much better at subtraction.

So where does all of this leave me?  Painting.  To relax I was told by my doctor take golf. It can be a relaxing hobby.  Nope.  Not relaxing.  So I took up painting.  The time lapse golf video you see here is a sample of what I do with paint.  It’s short – the demonstration is about 35 seconds and the actual sports art is about seven feet.  If you are on my blog you surely know that I am a sports artist, painting professionally for sports stadiums and arenas and other commercial projects.  I take commissions and would be happy to do a sports selfie of you playing your favorite sport.  You can reach me through my

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and I will be happy to discuss the possibilities with you.

Football art USC Trojans UCLA Bruins running back image art

Big win for Jim Mora this last Saturday as head coach of the  UCLA Bruins is 3 and 0 verses the USC Trojans.  UCLA wins big 38 to 20. Credit to both teams who, wanting to get at each other, fought hard with a high scoring game.  These teams are a classic cross town rivalry.   It was a fun game to watch, particularly if you are a UCLA fan.  Which I am.

UCLA Bruins carrying the football.  The football art is painted on a 10" x 10" archival board covered with newsprint about the Bruins football team from 1990.  Painted with ink and acrylic.

Sports image of football running back from USC Trojans carrying the football.  The football art is painted on a 10" x 10" archival board covered with newsprint about the Trojans football team from 1990.  Painted with ink and acrylic. 

These paintings are already sold but if you would like something similar please email me through the contact page.  

image Mike Trout Los Angeles Angels

Sports Artist John Robertson’s painting of Mike Trout.  Michael "Mike" Nelson Trout (born August 7, 1991)[1] is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Major League Baseball (MLB). Following an initial stint with the Angels in 2011, Trout had a breakout season in 2012, unanimously winning the American League (AL) Rookie of the Year Award, winning a Silver Slugger Award, and finishing runner-up to Miguel Cabrera in the AL Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award voting. He also led the league in several statistical categories, including runs scored, stolen bases with 49

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