The Freedom Tower at Night

My work can be described as “hard-edged pattern painting”. The repetition of shapes with slight variations in size create the illusion of depth as well as a sense of movement. Color contrasts, green/red, blue/yellow and orange/purple, add directly to the illusion of depth perception, the hard edge shapes winding throughout imply the sense of movement. Over time, this technique, with the introduction of glazes, (dark paint over light), express a sense of atmosphere. The example shown here, hopefully, illustrate this evolution of “hard-edged” quality to the overlapping fields of color, where “line” is diminished, the technical term being “chiaroscuro”.

This painting still has a few more layers to go. Oil paint takes up to six months to dry, and each layer must be dry before adding another. There are mediums which help speed up this process, (not to push for any company, but) Galkyd medium from the Gamblin Company, works to do this without causing harm to the oils. All fourteen pictures below illustrate this progression and may be viewed by clicking the arrow to the right.