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The Green Falls

5/23/2018

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​​The Green Falls is a painting that surprised me in its creation. I intended to create a completely abstract work. I had a color scheme I wanted to work with and as I played with it on the canvas, it started to resolve itself into the shape of something recognizable. I started to see vines in the paint, and falling water, with light shining through from behind. I resolved the image, shaping the leaves and vines, bringing in some deep red leaves, and adding some rivulets of water. It was an interesting experience, combining accident with intention, and is something I've continued to pursue in other works. The Green Falls looks extraordinarily different in different lighting, with sometimes the green, red, or golden tones being more prominent.

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The Green Falls, 2015, 30 x 40 Inches, Oil on Canvas
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The Leaf Series

5/23/2018

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I'm going to be returning to some 
of my earlier work in blog posts to provide some context for these works, starting with the oldest work I have posted on my site and moving forward.

The Leaf Series focuses on magnified leaves, all measuring 24 x 24 inches. The works in this series emphasize the abstract forms of the leaves. The works vary in how much of the leaf's outer edges are visible. For example, in Maple Leaf and Sweet Gum Leaf 1, the leaf shape is cropped out of the painting so that the viewer can concentrate on the pattern of veins and the color field of the leaf's surface.

In Sweet Gum Leaf 2 and 3, the outer shape of the leaf is more defined, in order to depict a little of the serrated edges that are a hallmark of sweet gum leaves.

Creating this series involved many leaf-hunts and much close observation of leaves. The leaf-hunts led me to look at the leaves more closely than I ever had before. (I also had a small helper, who volunteered himself to assist in my search, so not only was I moved to spend more time looking closely at leaves, but someone else was too.)

None of the paintings depicts a specific leaf, but each painting based on observation a number of similar leaves. Each leaf is an exuberant bursts of color, but can also bring about a state of deep contemplation, as one gets lost in fields of color. 

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Maple Leaf, 2015, 24 x 24 Inches, Oil on Wood
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Sweet Gum Leaf 1, 2015, 24 x 24 Inches Oil on Wood
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Sweet Gum Leaf 3, 2015, 24 x 24 Inches, Oil on Wood
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