“Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.”-Kahlil Gibran

So begins my foray into the design process on this very rainy day in Michigan. If nature could inspire me today, it would be with misty, soft greens and dark reds and purples of the late summer and an anticipation of the fall colors, just like the beautiful fall photo on my site here. But color is just part of the design process for a web site. Layout or composition also is important. So I ask myself, does the creative process of designing a website need a certain amount of restraint? Could Picasso, Miro or Monet or Cezanne have created websites? I love a software package called Painter (Corel) and when I’m really stuck on a design, I go to Painter and am unleashed. Some of my best stuff has come from Painter.

Sometimes, it would be lots more fun to just take a can of paint and throw it on a canvas but since I can do that with Painter and my nice 21″ Graphic monitor, well, life is good.