My current painting in progress is a 24 x 36 mixed media painting on gallery wrap canvas, a fusion of botanical forms and textures enveloped in a tranquil palette of blues, yellows, oranges, and deep warm brown. Here are some close-ups of the painting’s textures:



In building these layers of texture, I have embedded sections of real botanicals. Here you can see a ginkgo leaf.


Each day layers are added to various sections, allowed to dry, then evaluated as part of the composition as a whole. Today I began adding text. For me, creating mixed media art is not about the end result, but the celebration of the process.
To see more of my paintings, please visit my Abstract Painting Gallery.
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