Front Cover Artist – BOB D UCETTE “Amaryllis Bliss”, acrylic on canvas, 24” x 36”
tist – BOB DOUCETTE
“The internet has broken open a Pandora’s Box of information that has been laid bare for all to consume. For a visual artist it is a treasure trove of imagery from art history to modern pop culture that dazzles the mind. It’s the stuff that dreams are made of (nightmares too) and I like to cull my favorite shapes and colors together in a hodgepodge of imagery and then systematically organize “like” things and discard dissimilar things into a cohesive design to tell my story.” “I prefer to handcraft my acrylic paintings in the old
fashion analog way to express my taste for seeing the artists hand at work but am not against planning things in Photoshop beforehand. I try to quickly grab my ephemeral notions and get them down on paper and pad before they evaporate. I believe our dreams are not at all haphazard; they are a way for your analytical mind to sort
December 2021
through images of the day,
themes of your life and deep-seated neurosis and make sense of them. I try to cull those dream images and flights of fancy together until they are the perfect metaphors for what I am feeling.”