"Blessings"
Acrylic on Cradled Board
24x32"
April 2008

From The Artist:
Babies, color, warmth, protection... Blessings.

I am toying with details and pattern - using them in a way to enrich my compositions. I have always loved detail and pattern and was first enticed to use them in my paintings while studying Chinese painting and illustration in college.

Along with birds and Chinese painting techniques - whimsical details are characteristics that I want to re-introduce into my current style.

Another painting on deep-cradled gessobord (see lower left) with unstained 2" Oak edges.