Satin Night width-52 They didn’t need to act

They didn’t need to act

Looking at this image

We styled her to the era and I just told her to look free

My preconception was to push modern sensibilities to one side and to play to the stern masculine traditions of Westerns

18K gold and Sleeping Beauty turquoise

Satin Night width-52 They didn’t need to act40" x 40" "My painted work is based on the use of mixed media (acrylic, oil, powdered pigments, charcoal, chalk pastel, oil pastel) applied in an expressionistic and fragmented fashion, aka disrupted realism. While this approach lets me explore my emotional response to my subjects, it also requires an intense and wordless conversation. Because each piece is a mini adventure, my failure rate can be frustrating at timesbut the successes are worth it"