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.
Blood Moon — 12" x 12" — $150
Talking — 12" x 12" — $150
Nighttime — 10" x 14" — $160
Crazy Green — 12" x 12" — $150
Floating — 14" x 11" — $165
Marsh Blooms — 12 x 9 — $125
Ocean View — 12" x 12" — $150
Conversation — 18 x 18 — $375
Foliage — 18" x 18" — $400
Tapestry — 14" x 11" — $165
Butterfly — 9 x 12 — $125
Contortion — 12 x 9 — $125
Cosmos — 12 x 12 — $150
Emblematic — 12 x 9 — $125
Shimmering — 12 x 12 — $150
Agitated Cosmos — 16 x 16 — $375
Ocean Sunrise — 7 x 14 — $150
Here We Go! — 12 x 12 — $150
Reflected Sunset #2 — 12 x 9 — $150
Bubbles — 12 x 12 — $150
Blue Streak — 16 x 12 — $175
3-5-1 — 12 x 12 — $150
Bluesy — 14 x 21 — $425
Letter Web — 16 x 16 — $375
Noisy Circles — 12 x 12 — $150
Reds & Letters — 16 x 16 — $375
Blue Grid — 12 x 12 — $150
Beehive — 12 x 12 — $150
From Above — 12 x 12 — $150
Starstruck — 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 16 — $375
Spring — 16 x 12 — $175
Winter Morning — 16 x 12 — $175
Ridge Crest — 16 x 12 — $175
Winter Afternoon — 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 — $175
Cosmic — 24 x 24 — $450
Shocker — 12 x 9 — $75
A — 12 x 12 — $150
Patterns #2 — 12 x 12 — $150
Patterns #3 — 12 x 12 — $150
Zig Zag — 12 x 12 — $150
Patterns — 12 x 12 — $150
Impression — 12 x 12 — $150
Wall #2 — 16 x 12 — $125
Footprints — 16 x 12 — $125
Wall — 24 x 24 — $450
Blue & Grey — 12 x 12 — $150
Falling Leaves — 24 x 24 — $450
Zebra — 9 x 12 — $75
Red & Green — 12 x 9 — $75
Orange Spiral — 16 x 12 — $165
Green Spiral — 11 x 14 — $100
Blue Dynamic — 24 x 24 — $450
Indian Print — 12 x 9 — $75
Bouquet — 24 x 24 — $450
Red — 12 x 9 — $75
RYBG — 12 x 9 — $75
Circles — 14 x 14 — $150
Lace — 12 x 9 — $75
Hands — 16 x 12 — $95
Cyclone — 16 x 12 — $95
Ferns — 9 x 12 — $75
Flying Leaves — 14 x 12 — $95
Old Mill — 12 x 9 — $75
Night — 16 x 11 — $95
Jazz — 9 x 12 — $75
Black & Gold — 12 x 9 — $75
Spheres — 12 x 9 — $75
Droplets — 12 x 9 — $75
Magic — 24 x 24 — $450
Leaves & Squares — 12 x 9 — $75
Flag — 9 x 12 — $75
Fabric — 16 x 12 — $125
Blue Chaos — 11 x 14 — $100