My Birthday Trip

Today is a special day, on April 19^th 1943 a scientist named Albert Hofmann accidentally took some LSD that he prepared for entirely other reasons, rode his bike home... and had an 'acid trip'. Everything looked a little odd and he had a kind of out-of-body experience due to the drug's effect. Coincidentally, I was born on this day, although quite a bit later than 1943! Truth is, I never tried LSD, which may surprise some people who know my abstract art... In this painting I went with the theme, using an old painting called sky emotes, which has like 250 views by the way, and turned it into a new painting. 

My birthday Trip, watercolour 8 x 10" hot press, 2026

 

Here is part of an older painting, done in 2010 shortly after watching Avatar... I liked the idea of neon things creating a variety of glowing effects. The rest of the painting is purely abstract expressionism, I like to call it doodleism. 

Neon trail right, watercolour 8 x 10" hot press, 2010 

 

Completing the birthday trip, here is a floating flower, I might have been thinking of stem cells or something something. More truth, I used to drink a fair bit of beer and then make watercolour paintings, I don't anymore, mostly sober for 12 years. In fact, my art is even better and slightly more odd while painting sober which is cool to know. But you can tell whatever story you want. Anyways, here's to 50 more birthdays!

Floating Flower, watercolour 9 x 12" paper