In The Garden series
Technical note: Different brands of oil and acrylic Titanium white were treated and used with the foreknowledge that some will darken , some will yellow and some will stay in the same hue. The intention is to create change over time and thus deepen and harmonize the composition as well as physically "grow" with you. These changes can already be seen in "The Lovers a" and "The Little Dancer a", The series was first photographed in January 2021, "The Lovers a" and "The Little Dancer a" were photographed in November 2021.
Artist's notes: This series was not to be, my intentions were to explore new possibilities for the "Angels and Dragons" series starting with two canvases.
And so it was for a couple of weeks until they simultaneously reached a point in which and with some imagination, the images of "The Lovers" on one and "Girl Dancing Among Flowers and Bees" now titled " The Little Dancer" on the other canvas appeared, it was a matter of connecting lines and dots and spots.
My next decision was to "roll with it" and explore the figurative potentiality of what I saw in the canvas, the only condition I placed on this project was to use the same color palette as the "Angels and Dragons" series because I wanted to explore the challenges and outcome of such limited color palette.
Images of faces and bodies showing through flowers and the idea of celebration in a garden setting, have been in my mind for the "Casino" series and in the "to do" list for some time, so this canvases provided a good opportunity to explore this project in painting rather than a digital format.
The meaning and symbolism of the paintings I leave to you..At least for the time being.
Flowerhead #1: This is the first digital drawing that is now part of the series. Flowerhead is a combination of drawing and pointillist technique.
Enjoy!