This exploration began when I was lamenting the fact that you cannot find a good peach in the Northwest. I love most everything else here...but summers are spent giving peaches here the side eye and wishing I could teleport to South Carolina.
Drawing is a natural extension of my thoughts and experiences...and while I usually mask things with cute animals, i just tried to draw the peach I wanted. Then of course it led to blueberries, which pair so well with peaches and happen to be delicious here.
These were a fun exploration into negative space and the power of simplicity. Someone recently phrased it to me as 'brush economy' and I thought that sounded pretty legit.
I painted this series in 2014, and hope to continue to add to it in the future. It was originally inspired by the figures we see in constellations - just made up lines. That, in combination with Picasso's study of a bull- the one where he paints a very realistic bull and then continues to simplify it to all but a few strokes. Gosh, he was good. Oh, at one point in time I worked in 3D software building things like shampoo bottles and whatnot...the foundation of all of those forms being a series of points and lines. Where was I? Oh, right, geometric animals! In watercolor!
They are worth planning for.
Baby Rhino ruins everything. Or at least that's the way it feels.
It's a pendulum. Sometimes tight, sometimes loose, sometimes shape and other times line. My goal is to be all of these things.
Oh, Life, what a delicate little flower.
To be held, cherished, and remembered.
Swimming in the sky,
swimming through your mind.
A combination of watercolor and sumi ink. But really it's less about the tigers and more about the butterfly.
