Black & White

20 summers ago I was playing with techniques I learned during 85/86 at Mississippi State. I decided I needed to try painting in black and white before returning to color.

Herd

acrylic on canvas, 9" x 12"

Bloody Mess

I painted this painting 20 years ago. The assignment for this piece was to create an abstract painting on ungessoed canvas. I glazed colors over one another as I developed this piece. As I worked across the piece I implied faces in the details. My instructor had me include a figure. Some people have asked if the figure was male or female. I decided to leave that ambiguous.

This piece is not typical for me. Since it's Halloween, I figured I'll start this blog with this one. What I learned during this process influenced my later works.


acrylic on ungessoed canvas, 26" x 42"