The Dog Walker

(24" x 36") - Acrylic Paint on Canvas  Estimated Shipping Cost and Sales Tax are not included in the sale price!  Full color prints are available upon request. This is my fourth "pareidolia" painting and maybe my personal favorite so far.  If you recall, pareidolia is a psychological term for our tendency to find meaningful visual patterns in seemingly random visual stimuli.  You see a cloud that looks like a giraffe, or you see George Washington in your cappuccino.  As with the other three paintings, I created a very energetic underpainting with lots of random lines and marks using thick wet layers of cadmium red and alizarin crimson.  Once dried, I simply stared at the canvas and let my pareidolia kick in.   Pareidolia gets me only so far with image making.  It is nothing more or less than a spark, a random nudge from the art gods, that then initiates a lengthy process of composition and story making.  The spark for this particular painting came from the outline of the man's ha