Paintings Before 2008
A strange thing happened to me on the week that I started oil painting. I was walking home from my local movie theater, the kind where you can get wine and yummy pizza at, and I was less then two blocks away from my home when over a few seconds this feeling of being lifted up off the ground started to consume my body as if I was quite literally being lifted up off the ground! I had to look down at the pavement to see if I was indeed still walking on it. I was but the feeling and experience of it was sooooo real that it made me look.
In that same week, my local newspaper's horoscope (which the guy that wrote it was fairly accurate at times, it was pretty scary how much so) said that there was an alignment of certain stars in the sky that week called (if I'm not mistaken) the Norther Cross (?). It was suppose to be a fairly significant week for many people and that for Leo's we were suppose to find out our destiny. Kind of interesting that that is when I started to paint! Things to think about!
As much as I loved my colored pencils it just took way too long to create a piece but when I started to work with oil paints a certain sense of freedom started to take over. A whole new world of possibilities opened up. I mean creating a 48"x48" painting! WOW, how exciting is that! I could get real physical and move with the color and just let all of this creative energy that was inside pour out of me and I could experiment more!