Digital painting: similarities to and differences from physical painting. Ways of working, 'the physically-made object', texture, character and emotion in digital painting. The advantage of its speed in the creative process. Digital painting is well suited to portraying 'the nature of the world.'

We encounter Nature before we understand 'the nature of the world.' We seek 'the nature of the world' through art. Paradox: seeking 'the nature of the world' by regarding an abstraction of nature itself. An artists subject ceases to belong to nature. Art is an attempt to reveal the secrets of our world. 'Art is ...the communication of what is secret by what is secret'.---Kandinsky.

Digital painting: similarities to and differences from physical painting. Ways of working, 'the physically-made object', texture, character and emotion in digital painting. The advantage of its speed in the creative process. Digital painting is well suited to portraying 'the nature of the world.'

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Continuing to update Cubism, influenced by music and musical forms...

An article by Keith Loria about my Solo exhibit at the Mamaroneck Artists Guild.

...Ford's musical sensibilities have helped to shape his sensitivity to color, form and for 'emotions for which there are no words'...

Explanation of how I used fugue form.

How composers use Sonata Form

Art is an attempt to express reality as it is felt in our times. I have chosen to work in Digital Painting because it is ideally suited to working through some of the major issues of contemporary existence, namely simultaneity, complexity, transparency and opacity, layering and their relation to Truth and Reality as we try to understand it.

Summary of my musical credits