White Collection

This series of paintings begins with cross hatching which was something I loved doing as a teenager.I had no idea I would finally find a home for my etching like obsessive drawing. I paint over the crosshatching with gesso. Gesso, (Italian: “gypsum” or “chalk”) fluid white coating, composed of plaster of paris, chalk, gypsum, or other whiting mixed with glue, applied to smooth surfaces such as wood panels, plaster, stone, or canvas to provide the ground for tempera and oil painting or for gilding and painting carved furniture and picture ..