Anonymous Guest asked: Meaning to ask, what led to your style? Adore your use of texture and colour.
big question!
for my still work, basically:
started seriously keeping sketchbooks in undergrad, after graduating determined that I wanted to eventually make each page into a full composition no matter what (this lead to a lot of images overlapping/gradually building up small marks as I puzzled out ways to resolve them over months of work)
I've always liked mixing more realsitic/academically strong work with formal experimentation and abstraction, a lot of my work is founded in studies of life and other artists. I do my figure drawing and observational studies 🌞
working in sketchbooks eventually lead to painting in them, where I worked out a comfortable process with fast drying alkyd mixed oil paints and a small palette of colors that have a very wide and vibrant range, which constitute most of my pictures (alizarin crimson, phthalo green, ultramarine blue, deep cadmium yellow, titanium white). I find graphite, oil pastels, and grease pencils mix pretty compatibility with these, white graphite being my favorite
charcoal is actually one of my favorite mediums and I used to work with it a lot, it's just so messy that I usually don't want to bother 🥲