They Came From The Sky

"Will you get your head out of the clouds and back in the water where it belongs?"

This piece is part of Foundry, an ongoing collection of my most experimental oil painting work. During the painting process, I try to find new ways to disrupt the viewer’s perception while preserving the essence of an image. In the context of portrait painting, I’m focused on the subject’s emotional state and the message communicated from each face that would otherwise go unnoticed.

There is a poem that says: "Tulips are blown from the blood of the youth of the country" That's all... This paintings has 5 layers. The first layer are 7 different colors of background. The second layer contains 11 different dots and shapes which I drew. The layer named human are my lines art which has 23 different paintings. And the other layers contains basic rectangles, frame, and blood.

Reflections At Dawn is a series of artwork (10) that I created between April of 2021 and October of 2021. This series is a visual representation of an answer to the question, "Why do I create?" I've typically got a lot on my plate and my days are pretty stressful. Art is my medicine. There are moments, late at night, that I feel most alive. It is during those small amounts of time that I set aside each day to create, that I can forget about everything else and just let my emotions stream out onto the (digital) canvas. The artwork in this collection is not unlike most of the artwork I've created over the last 8 years. Each piece is