Raven in Flowers 20x15" ink on illustration board

Raven in Flowers 20 x 15 inches on illustration board.
Sale price: $500 (includes shipping) original, without frame.

This took me a long time to finish. I wanted to see if I could do it, so I did it, I’m happy with the work as far as I see. Eventually, it became kind of a Mandela, a maze, that I followed through, line by line, point by point. I tried to create some drama in the tonality, by developing the contrast between dark and light. I didn't want to totally add colour, but instead use it to highlight some of the objects in the work. This was hard, I really missed my paints, but it was a good exercise for me. I need to do this from time to time and this will go into my collection of works as part of my “in the woods” body of work.

Work in Progress

This painting is a work in progress, where I am exploring the mythological wood. I have been thinking a lot about animism: The idea that everything has a spirit. I definitely feel that way about woods. All through my life the woods have been my go to place, especially when things got tough at home or in school.  I felt as if I had come to a safe place, a magical place that would protect me from all the bad things in life. Still to this day I love the forest, I love trees, and I love to breathe in fresh air when I walk through the woods. I'm going to continue to do so as I move forward. This piece needs to dry a bit before I finish it off, I'm going to have to start something new this week. I have been pushing myself to do more, expect more from myself. 

SELPHIE-
Size 12x9
Materials: Oil paint on Canvas

I attempted to paint myself, only because it was something I wanted to challenge myself with and I really like to do portraits and I haven't really posted a lot of portraits up as of yet. This project has taken quite a while and sometimes it's hard to paint yourself, mostly because you want to be honest, but if your self image is skewed, like mine is, it's really hard to see myself. When you paint a self  portrait you really have to ask yourself: "Who am I?" If I can freeze a moment in time what kind of message do I want to send out to the world, that kind of thing.

Tornado by the Treeline

This is a painting I wanted to tackle and may do so again. Of a Tornado- I will try in diffrent formats and see what happens, this isn't a one deal kind of subject I will do some more later.