“Drawing with scissors…” work #5. Henri Matisse, near the end of his life & career, started creating art images from gouache painted pieces of paper & then cutting those colorful pages into shapes & designs. That technique has been truly inspiring to me. Really enjoying playing with my construction paper cutouts.
This is a mixed media watercolor and acrylic on paper. This piece came together nicely and as always with some happy little artistic serendipities along the way
Passion is essential to leading and living a fulfilling life. For me, there is nothing I put my hand to that I am more passionate about than art. I love painting. I am a completely untrained, self-taught painter but I have made it my full intention to learn as much as I can about the art of painting and to grow as a painter. My most recent work represents a departure from my most recent season of kind of strict pen and ink and watercolor geometric abstract pieces. I embrace this as moving into a season of growth as an artist/painter. I would say I have experienced this transition numerous times since setting out to paint in 2013.
This painting seeks to incorporate a bold, even unorthodox use of color, and the playfulness of line, against a backdrop of unconventional shapes that emerged onto the page rather than being there as the result of careful placement and planning.
(watercolor & ink on cold-pressed paper, Aug. 2015)
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