Computer Illustration of the concept by Ray
zielinski © 2002
"Big Idea" is an experiment
in growing an image.
It's sort of a wordless adventure.
A kind of daily creative journal .
The sum of its parts.
I started on January 1st, 2002.
It was my intention to do one a day for a full year. This did not exactly happen. I fell behind in May when I spent more time outside gardening like a nut. However, I have managed to get over 150 pieces done so far, and may add more as they present themselves - or whenever I need to jump start my creative thinking!
The rules for this are: Subsequent paintings must play off a pervious image in the series (going in closer, farther - or even playing off of a border of a previous piece).
This self-assignment was the jumping off point for my next project "The Natural History of a Happy Land" (here)
The images you see here are scanned gouache paintings on 9" x 12" bristol paper board.