Concentration Works 2017

"Water Tower" "Purple Mountain" "Big Sky"

These three pieces are made from chalk pastels on toned paper. I wanted to explore an unfamiliar medium and an unfamiliar subject matter. I choice landscapes because I feel like as an artist, it's important to be able to paint/draw a landscape. These two pieces were intended to be just trial runs of the chalk pastels, but I ended up really liking them. In the future, I'd like to turn these pieces into prints and thank you cards to sell later. I like the chalk pastel because it's quick, and it creates a different look, that painting and drawing can't create. These two landscapes were from my imagination, but in the future I'd like to take some pictures and turn them into drawing/paintings.

"Still Life" Acrylic on panel "Forest" Watercolor "Venus" Watercolor and pencil

"The Lover, The Loner, And The Thief" Colored pencil and pen

"Cats" Watercolors "Goya Inspirations" Watercolor and Pen

My Concentration has evolved from pastoral landscapes to stylized, and composite figures. I'd say my concentration doesn't really have much of a theme, except for that all the pieces have to do with my own artistic exploration. I feel that although they all have something in common, they are all very different. Looking at them all together, I feel like all the colors derived from the three original pastel landscapes.