This past weekend I got to work planning a new show that will open at Scout Gallery April 4th. For the first time in a few months I felt inspired and optimistic toward new art happeningsrather than anxious. Images of new work cascaded through my mind and from the second i got home I started putting together a few new canvases. While, as usual, I didn't have a specific sketch or composition in mind I wanted to do pretty much the opposite of what i had been recently. Rather than starting with a bright and vibrant background color, I wanted raw canvas and I wanted that to show through to the end. Instead of the directness of drawing, I wanted the ethereal qualities of watercolor and washes. Figures would be paired with nature in a somewhat voyeuristic, gauguin-in-the-tropics sort of way that carry a mysterious, almost mythic or spiritual atmosphere.
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