Artists

I’m old enough to remember when people started getting their first personal computers and Photoshop came along. I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours working on Photoshop and I loved it. It was a brand new medium for artists to use. Just another tool for an artist to create super exciting art, and I see you’ve done just that.

I love this! Everything about it wonderful. The first thing that you see is the riot of amazing colors and the strong shapes and lines of the flowers and petals set mostly on the bottom two thirds of the canvas. The strength of the flower shapes and the colors you used, including the surprising use of very strong black shapes are in perfect balance within the cluster of shapes but also with the very subtle gradation of the background colors.

Your piece is full of artistic surprises. It’s as if you broke all the creepy and rusty rules and applied your own set. It definitely grabs your attention, but then you also have some very subtle elements in your tan and yellow background petal shapes and in the way you outline the strong shapes in a freehand style, and in the blending of colors, as if you had used an airbrush to apply some of them.

The petals in yellow and tan create a visually intricate cluster of subtle lines and shapes which unfold as the viewer’s eye travels through the shapes. And your strong solid black shapes make for an eye popping effect that I find daring and grand and appealing and inventive and it makes the painting extra strong and dynamic! It also makes your painting a work of art in which you make up your own rules. It’s a wonderful piece. Your spot of soft blue is also a good touch, being the only cool color you used. It’s like candy for the eyes.