Give Life to the Surrounding Environment

Everyone decorates. The best decoration flows through a creative mind. It is seeing the relationship between shapes and color. And with that in mind my recent creative challenge is to use only black paint on a white background. I have done so because black contains all colors. It is the most elegant and gives a sense of completeness. But it also can be the most intense. Depending on its placement, when black is incorporated into a color field it can bring into the space excitement or quietness. It can become aristocratic or base. Black paint is alive and gives life to the surrounding shapes and colors.

“Forest Stream”
40” x 40”
ink, acrylic, charcoal
on unstretched canvas

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