oil on panel, 18" x 24"
Another experimental excursion introducing abstraction to representation, in baby steps. I am just not very interested in photorealism as a painter. I like to capture the essence of a thing, in this case tiny pansies, but once it's there, my attention turns to how far I can go in the direction of abstraction, without losing the essential "pansyness" that I find so alluring. What if I did this to it? What if I did that? This painting was full of those moments, although truth be told, I could take that impulse much further than I did here. But the time has come to step away from this one, call it done, and move on to the next challenge.
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