Influential Imagery

My second painting harkens back to the cropped details seen in art history books and magazines. In many instances, I've admired theses tight crops much more than the fully realized traditional composition itself... Modern pictorial editing meets traditional oil painting.

If you haven't detected already, there's something about a certain degree of realism I simply can't escape. Also, after so many years working the digital prepress side of electronic design, I'm on an interesting — but comfortable — kick of painting with only 5 tubes of color: cyan, magenta, yellow, black and white. Keeps my trips to the art supplier simpler.

Here's a progression of a 4x4-foot oil on canvas, Figure With Quilt.