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| | Acrylics on canvas
12" x 12" | | |
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Berkeley, CA
United States
| | My late mother was an artist and some of my earliest memories are of watching her paint in oils. The smell, the vivid colors with their strange names--yellow ochre? Prussian blue?--fascinated me and I wanted to paint too. But Mom didn't want me using her materials (probably because they were messy and toxic). So one day when she wasn't looking I did an illicit painting with some half-dried-up paint from one of Mom's discarded pallets, using a piece of bark for a brush. The painting didn't look like...
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These paintings are all based on a combination of additive and subtractive techniques. That is, paint is applied to the canvas and then selectively removed.
| | These portraits are 30" x 40" or thereabouts. Consequently the figures are life sized or larger. (People who see them have asked me if I'm a muralist!) The emphasis is on accurate likeness, with bold colors and patterns.... |
| | Linocuts, Woodcuts, Monoprints, monoprint collages, and collages |
| | 3D works, mosaics,and other oddments that don't fit elsewhere |
| | Pencil, charcoal, ink, and mixed media |
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