Abstracts
The process involved in creating these Abstracts is entirely different from the plein air and more realistic paintings that I have been creating for years. It involves applying layers upon layers, with additions and intentional “destructions,” until a painting that finally “works” (at least to me!) emerges.
These explorations are made possible, in part, by the use of cold wax as a medium. Cold wax, with the use of a scraper, makes the application of large swaths of paint possible. I had been finding myself more and more averse to using brushes – brush marks always seem so intentional and confining.
In creating Abstracts, I find myself seeking ways to make marks with just about anything but a brush – large and small scrapers, stencils, leaves, stamps, sponges, crumpled tissue paper … virtually anything. I am constantly searching for new ways to make marks!
The cold wax medium also lends itself to collage. One very enticing and exciting way to do this is by adding collaged gel plate images. The gel (or gelli) plate is a revelation! Gel plate images made with acrylic on tissue paper, often using stencils or virtually anything that leaves an impression on the gel plate, are wonderful additions to one’s visual vocabulary.
All Abstracts are oil and cold wax on panel, sometimes on paper affixed to a panel. They are unframed and edge-painted so require no framing.
From Above — 12 x 12 — $150
Starstruck — 12 x 12 — $150
Talking — 12 x 12 — $150
Black & Blue — 16 x 16 — $375
Lettered — 24 x 24 — $650
Swirling — 24 x 24 — $650
Red River — 24 x 24 — $650
Yellow & Green — 16 x 16 — $375
Red & White — 16 x 11 — $375
Spring — 16 x 12 — $175
Winter Morning — 16 x 12 — $175
Ridge Crest — 16 x 12 — $175
Winter Afternoon — 16 x 12 — $175
Night Swamp — 16 x 16 — Oil and Cold Wax — $250
Sunset — 16 x 12 — $175
Footprints in Green — 12 x 9 — $95
Pink Stars — 12 x 9 — $95
Water Blossom — 12 x 9 — $95
Dusk — 16 x 12 — $175
Swamp Patterns — 16 x 16 — $250
Forest Fire at Night — 16 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $175
Blue Chaos #2 — 12 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $150
Cosmic — 24 x 24 — Oil and Cold Wax — $450
Shocker — 12 x 9 — Oil and Cold Wax — $75
A — 12 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $150
Patterns #2 — 12 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $150
Patterns #3 — 12 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $150
Zig Zag — 12 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $150
Patterns — 12 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax Collage — $150
Impression — 12 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $150
Wall #2 — 16 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $125
Footprints — 16 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $125
Wall — 24 x 24 — Oil and Cold Wax — $450
Blue & Grey — 12 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $150
Falling Leaves — 24 x 24 — Oil and Cold Wax — $450
Zebra — 9 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax Collage — $75
Spring Spirals — 12 x 9 — Oil and Cold Wax Collage — $75
Red & Green — 12 x 9 — Oil and Cold Wax Collage — $75
Orange Spiral — 16 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $165
Green Spiral — 11 x 14 — Oil and Cold Wax — $100
Blue Dynamic — 24 x 24 — Oil and Cold Wax — $450
Indian Print — 12 x 9 — Oil and Cold Wax Collage — $75
Bouquet — 24 x 24 — Oil and Cold Wax Collage — $450
Red — 12 x 9 — Oil and Cold Wax — $75
RYBG — 12 x 9 — Oil and Cold Wax — $75
Circles — 14 x 14 — Oil and Cold Wax — $150
Lace — 12 x 9 — Oil and Cold Wax Collage — $75
Hands — 16 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $95
Cyclone — 16 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $95
Ferns — 9 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax Collage — $75
Flying Leaves — 14 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax Collage — $95
Old Mill — 12 x 9 — Oil and Cold Wax — $75
Night — 16 x 11 — Oil and Cold Wax — $95
Jazz — 9 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $75
Spheres — 12 x 9 — Oil and Cold Wax — $75
Black & Gold — 12 x 9 — Oil and Cold Wax Collage — $75
Droplets — 12 x 9 — Oil and Cold Wax — $75
Leaves & Squares — 12 x 9 — Oil and Cold Wax — $75
Flag — 9 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $75
Fabric — 16 x 12 — Oil and Cold Wax — $125
Blue Chaos — 11 x 14 — Oil and Cold Wax — $100