Art
Each of my pieces uses vibrant layers of texture and color to build the image. You will find something new each time you experience one of my paintings. Every piece is an original, no copies or prints.
In my newest pieces I'm exploring freeing the concept of what most of us consider to be a painting from the limitation of the usual boundary of a rectangular framed canvas.
Cast shadows from each layer play a part in the idea of breaking boundaries because the wall becomes another "layer" of the painting.
Each of my pieces uses vibrant layers of texture and color to build the image. You will find something new each time you experience one of my paintings. Every piece is an original, no copies or prints.
In my newest pieces I'm exploring freeing the concept of what most of us consider to be a painting from the limitation of the usual boundary of a rectangular framed canvas.
Cast shadows from each layer play a part in the idea of breaking boundaries because the wall becomes another "layer" of the painting.
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Newest Piece: Blue Rhapsody
I like the challenge of creating art on multiple canvases. I use 2 or more canvases that become diptychs or triptychs or what I call 'quads'. Each canvas must stand on its own as a composition and then the combination of canvases also forms a larger contiguous composition. My earlier examples include; Watergarden, Pool, Southwest River, and Cholla. The newest is Blue Rhapsody on two 36 x 48" canvases - acrylic paint and texture mediums.
Newest Piece: Blue Rhapsody
I like the challenge of creating art on multiple canvases. I use 2 or more canvases that become diptychs or triptychs or what I call 'quads'. Each canvas must stand on its own as a composition and then the combination of canvases also forms a larger contiguous composition. My earlier examples include; Watergarden, Pool, Southwest River, and Cholla. The newest is Blue Rhapsody on two 36 x 48" canvases - acrylic paint and texture mediums.
New Installation Series:
Ideas lead to ideas! I'm in the studio creating several series of paintings.
The themed series become installations. The 'Unwrapped' and "Emergence' installations are based on cropped drawings from my sketchbooks. More to come.
Acrylic on canvas, texture medium, gesso 10 "x 10" each
Working Method
Looking through my sketchbooks from the past I found some ideas that I thought would be interesting to turn into installations of many smaller canvases using crops of certain parts of the drawings. Cropping these drawings and zeroing in on small areas has a 'zoom' effect that changes the old idea into something new.
I took photos of the pages and then selected the areas I wanted to crop into and printed them out as essentially new sketches. From those I chose some to enlarge to make the next step easier.
I took photos of the pages and then selected the areas I wanted to crop into and printed them out as essentially new sketches. From those I chose some to enlarge to make the next step easier.
Over the larger sketches I created grids on the computer. Grids make copying a small sketch onto a larger canvas much easier. From here each gridded sketch was drawn onto a gridded canvas. I chose 10x10 inch canvases for these installations.
For "Emergence' I chose to use some areas of torn newspaper which I applied to the canvas with matt medium and let it all dry completely. Please note the canvases are not in the same order on each of the method photos.
Next Is the decision as to what palette will i use as the colors for this series on canvases. Since I want these paintings to be strongly related to each other I feel they should use the same colors in different rhythms on each canvas that will make an overall movement across the installation. Above is the first 'pass' of color on all canvases.
Nearly done. All the areas across the paintings have their flat flooding of color or texture. The last pass I'll make will be to add emphasis to the color areas making them more interesting and I'll add a few 'details' to help move the eye across each canvas and the entire installation. That result is the photo above the title "Working Method" above. All the installation series are done in a similar way to Emerence and Unwrapped"