Blue Daisies No. 2 Print

I want the viewer to see the piece and feel the sunshine and hear the shore breeze through the palms on a summer's day. The colors, stroke work and texture all lend themselves to creating this feeling. I hope to translate a memory of that summer day onto the paper. I have been working with mixed media on paper for about 24 months. However, I have been painting with watercolors and acrylics for 35 years. This medium and material has freed up my style and loosened my approach enabling bold foundational stroke work that acts as the foundation of my mixed media pieces. In all of the mixed media pieces I want the paper to have a presence in the piece and the negative space have a shape. These ideas help to anchor my technique and allow the work to be viewed independently or narrate towards each other in the various series collections. Here, "Blue Daisies" No. 3 in the Day at the Beach series captures the vibrancy of tropical plants and their iconic shapes accentuated by the aqua, turquoise and of course bright greens and hot pink.