Abstracts

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Along with landscapes, I've explored other styles of paintings.  One of my other favorite ways to work is in abstraction.  My abstracts are what I like to call process based, which means I allow the mediums I use to do what it wanted to do.  I combine paint and iridescent pigments with different mediums like oil, rubbing alcohol and acrylic floor wax to see how it would react.  This way of working has allowed me to let go of the need to be in control.  How I leave a work to dry is never how it will look once everything is finally dry.   These works are made up of all different layers of colors and glazes on top of a textured surface.  Working this way gave me a new found love and appreciation for textured artwork.  I've always loved Impressionism for the stylistic brushstrokes and immense amounts of texture. 

March 2018, I have recently started working in this way again, after spending most of my time last year learning and exploring working with watercolors and drawings, I decided I needed to break away from the control again and just go with the flow so to speak.