A poem I wrote inspired by my painting of the same name. It’s about flowers and about telling others who we truly are.
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in art poetry
Soothingness
in art poetry
A poem I wrote, inspired by my painting of the same name.
Read MoreGetting back to my happy place
In the summer I enjoy painting outdoors, but in the winter I paint from photographs that I’ve taken during my travels. I travel to California often and I started taking pictures of bird of paradise flowers on one of my trips to Los Angeles. The following Spring I started painting from those photographs.
The Bird of Paradise Flower series was my first body of work based on the study of a single subject matter. Although the first one I painted was very simple, the more paintings I created, the more details I explored.
Read MoreColorful Clouds
After I’ve completed a series or finished a project, I take time to begin researching and experimenting with new subjects, styles, and color palettes. If I’m lucky I happen upon something right away and am able to develop my next series of paintings. Other times, I pick up from a one-off creation that I completed in the middle of a different series and didn’t continue. I let that painting speak to me and tell me a story. Then I let that story guide me through a new body of work.
I wasn’t as lucky when I started Remnants…
Read MoreI Think in Color
in process
“What is your inspiration?”
This is probably the most difficult question for me to answer. The initial thought that leads to my art is’t ever linear. It’s more like an accumulation of what I see, what I imagine, what makes my heart beat a little faster, and what I’ve created before. However, there is one bit of inspiration that’s at the root of my paintings — color.
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