Charles Adams Biography

Charles Adams        

Age: 55

California Native

 

I am a self taught artist with a history of art in my family.

My great-grandfather was a gold-leaf letter artist for the White House and the State House, hand-painting the names of Congressmen and Senators on the doors of their offices. 

My grandfather was an incredible impressionist and realist. He was able to draw from memory, life-like scenes with a special talent of shadowing and color coordination’s. 

My father has also been blessed with art and creation.  He has spent many years of his life as an architect as well.

For me personally, my favorite past time is of course painting abstracts and also cartoon characters and automotive drawings similar to Ed Roth.

I've also illustrated a children’s book with publication but my main focus is Abstract.  

I’ve spent many years trying to figure out what form of art I like best and I keep coming back to Abstract.

After years of playing with different mediums in art such as pencil, charcoal, pen & ink, water color, pastels and even extensive computer graphics & animation, I’ve found Acrylic to be my favorite to create my abstracts today.   

Painting is a way I like to express myself. People express themselves in many other ways such as writing, or the way they decorate their home, the clothes they wear or the color of the car they drive etc.

I like to use paint as expression and the way I feel. 

The use of twisty turning flowing lines, shapes and vivid colors makes me feel alive and it’s such a relaxing way to escape the regular everyday things we do by throwing paint on a canvas.

I like to think that the motion in the paintings is what I feel life is like; constant change, something new happens, something terrible happens, something emotional happens, something great happens.

My favorite abstract artists are Jackson Pollock & Wassily Kandinsky.  I’ve read quite a bit about both artists but Jackson Pollock compositions are the most appealing to me.  He painted by laying the canvas on the floor and used regular house paints in buckets.  He used paint brushes but favored using sticks and other things to apply his paint by throwing it, dripping it, making it move on the canvas as if it were alive!  

I’ve used the same method of painting as Pollock but instead I like using a long Phillips screw driver to scroll my paint on a canvas.

I like to use a brush to create flowing moving shapes, lines and colors but still like to incorporate some of Pollock’s paint slinging to make paintings a little more interesting. 

When people look at my paintings, I want the paint to have continuous motion so their eyes don’t just focus on one thing.  I like them to move their eyes around the canvas constantly trying to seek out that something or reason why, that’s what makes them abstract and interesting.

Pollock used to say he liked the feeling of working inside his paintings, meaning he moved and walked around the canvas, adding paint here and there as if he we’re inside a dream of expression and he created wonderful abstract compositions that will live forever and he’ll always be my inspiration for continuing to paint and for my means of self expression.

 

Exhibitions:    San Diego Museum Of The Living Artist: “C Note” Shows, Judged/Juried Shows

        San Diego County Fair: Judged Shows, 2006, 2007

        Art Walk On The Bay 2007

        Ricardo Vela Gallery: November 2007 thru January 2008

        San Diego Art Walk Little Italy: April 2008, 2009, 2010,       2011,2012            

        Del Mar Fair exhibits yearly.

        San Diego Museum Of The Living Artist: June 2008

        San Diego Art Walk On The Bay: September 2009, 2010,      2011,2012,2013