Process

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How I Start the Process

I start every painting by priming the canvas which is a technique of laying a thin layer of paint over the entire canvas.

I then paint the word “love” on the canvas with a heart which is my way of connecting with the canvas and paint and sharing my love with viewers of my paintings.

Miracle

In creating Miracle, I began by layering paint using complimentary earth tones. Some colors balance each other and other colors stand out creating designs weaved into the painting. I then added areas of turquoise and phalo green using bold brush strokes with my paint brush and also thinned out some paint allowing it to run creating some transparent areas. I used a sgraffito technique of carving away paint and exposing the paint layer underneath with a pallet knife to expose the golden ochre and orange tones underneath the turquoise.

Enigma

With Enigma I felt compelled to create some large shapes. I created large areas of one color broken down into smaller shapes almost like puzzle pieces. I had no intention of human like figures emerging into the puzzles but the shapes took on different forms and shapes lending themselves to individual discovery. I then added some line and larger areas of color.