A Color Workshop

Window Tryptych 4 ‘ x 8 ‘

A triptych abstract painting with dominant red and green hues, featuring layered textures, lines, and rectangular shapes.

For this exhibition, I worked on paper, canvas, and doorskin (a kind of wood veneer). I used watercolors, pastels, dyes, and raw chemicals such as iron oxide and chromium. copper carbonate, copper oxide, and cobalt oxide. The chemicals mixed as liquids created interesting and fascinating textures and added opaque, subdued, and subtle gradations of tone. The combination of the dyes and watercolors added rich, vibrant color, and with the flat, unusual hues, created a dynamic tension and interaction. Pastels and sharp sticks were used as drawing tools to draw flowers and symbols on top of the background. I don’t believe I could have achieved the same intensity of color without using this media combination.

From My Window

An art gallery with framed artworks hanging on a white wall under track lighting, a person standing near the left side, and a chair near a window in the background.
Colorful chalk drawing of a church interior with large blue window and surrounding arches, with a flower on the left and the words 'Blue iris in church' written at the bottom.
Watercolor painting of a window with four panes and pinkish-red flowers on the left side.

Blue Iris in Church

The title of this painting is Nocturne. It is 20" x 30'. It is done on watercolor paper. The colors inside the window are mixtures of dyes with some watercolor. The flower is watercolor. The frame around the window is chromium.

From My Window

A colorful painted frame surrounding a view of the sky with clouds.

I wanted to give the feeling in this large work of being able to enter through the opening.