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The Izabella Suite is an oeuvre of large black and white drawings in oil on paper.
The flexibility and opacity of the oil medium provides an impasto effect to the lines and a tactile quality to the negative spaces usually associated with oil paintings. The spontaneous graphic images associated with mark making dominate the paper and evoke mythical and metaphorical themes. |
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The Izabella Addendum is a body of large color drawings in oil on paper.
Multiple clear pigmented colors are used to expand on the mark making gestures initiated in the Izabella Suite. The use of colored line was explored and extended throughout the images. |
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Drawings to Jaxen Jett is a body of work consisting of both black and white oil drawings and colored oil drawings on smaller size colored paper. |
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Texas Caliente is a series of very large oil drawings on paper taking the gestural effect of oil on paper to a more expansive level.
The special properties inherent in oil paint as a medium on paper gives a vitality to the image that keeps it fresh and yet substantial. |