Painting Nature and Human Nature
I started with Beach-1: simply a young woman enjoying a water view. With the version shown here, called Beach-2, I added leaves and ripples on water, and mixed sand into the beige acrylic paint of the shoreline. These additions made Beach-2 more textured and gave the eyes more varied spaces to roam. The image measures 24 x 32." The full piece with frame measures 30 x 38".
Endless Spring was painted on one side of a wooden door. The other side contains the loose artwork of another artist who used the door as a working surface. The painting loosely illustrates a blissful afternoon at Rainbow Springs State Park. The painting measures 36 x 80 x 1.5 inches and deliberately has no frame so that the spring water appears to be without end.
