Pastel Drawings & Paintings

(pastel on tiled paper)

This is one of the first flowering shrubs in my yard. I first take my own photo and print it covered with a grid. Then with paper tiles cut to size, I draw one at a time, building the whole from its parts. This process is meditative for me, mindfully abstracting form through positive and negative shapes, lights, darks and color.

(acrylic on canvas board, 22" x 28") 

While this mandala differs in subject from my landscapes and nature details, it was born by way of the same meditative process, one of mindful abstraction of a whole by its parts. The painting begins in the very center with a singular shape, and continues outwards, shapes repeating and circling around the center in quadrilateral symmetry.