I realized that in sharing the plants in my studio, I’ve been sharing lots of glimpses of this painting, but since it brings me so much joy (seriously, I love having it in my studio) I thought it needed a blog post of it’s own! (Especially now that it hangs out with the chair from my MFA thesis.)
This is a painting I actually did back in 2012, when I was first getting back into painting, and was trying to figure out how to paint large abstracts in oil. Since most of the resources I found for painting abstractly focused on acrylic, I eventually abandoned oils to try my hand at acrylic, a medium I’d always hated.
As a result, most of my initial experiments in oil were largely left unfinished. Or so I thought.
While setting up this new studio space, I went digging through my old paintings looking for art to hang on the walls, and I was suddenly struck by how much the colors and shapes in this painting reflected the colors and shapes in the plants I was buying.
Suddenly, it didn’t seem unfinished at all! Rather, it was the perfect addition to that corner of my studio.
And speaking of perfect additions, after sharing an image of this chair from my MFA thesis on Instagram, a friend commented that it should live in my new studio space! So after moving it to a few different locations, it finally seems to have found the perfect spot in my studio, hanging out with this painting and my plants!
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