I love being a painter

I am so excited about this idea! Okay, so this is a diptych titled “We Begin to Remember.” Usually when I use photo reference to create panoramic images, I take two pictures side by side, then use my artistic prowess to smooth out the edges where the two images will meet. In other words I fudge it so that it becomes one united piece for the painting. In this case, the waves were coming so fast that by the time my camera recovered so I could take the adjacent shot, things had changed drastically. Here’s where the cool idea comes in: instead of smoothing it out so that it would look like one solid image when I went to the painting, I kept it separate. Look at the waves as they go from one panel to the other and you can see that they do not sync up exactly. To me it speaks about the power of the waves, and the element of time.

My work is all about fleeting moments. What is exciting about this piece is that a.) it is still about capturing a fleeting moment, and b.) totally speaks to how impossible it is. Caught in the web of time and all that jazz.

This piece is unified by the sky, but it is a chaotic piece. The image is from the trip to LaPush a couple weeks ago. In the next piece of this series I am going to completely change my method of underpainting so as to bring the chroma down a bit.

Exciting! Excited artist here!

Dawn

oh yeah, this piece is on archival cradled panels, each piece is 18×24 so total overall size 18 x 48