Still Life #26 22"x22" gouache on w/c paper
In this piece I am working with red and green. Dark mid-tones to light mid-tones. I deconstruct the original still life drawing, finding the abstract images in the drawing, and then reconstruct creating new images. The original still lifes were based on place. The place being New Mexico, where I live and work. I set up a still life including pottery made in Mexico and weavings from Mexico, and include fruits, vegetables and flowers grown locally. The new images seem to speak in a more universal way. In all realism there is abstraction, and in abstraction is realism. As I study the work I begin to see animals, and characters, removed from the original drawings.
These new compositions suggest all over pattern, and yet there are no repeats in the images. It is a different way to create pattern than I have done before.
This is an example of a still life set up I might create in the studio. Then I carefully draw from it.
