BOUNTIFULNESS

ABOUT THE PAINTING: BOUNTIFULNESS: Acrylic on canvas, 2 x 1 FT, 2024. This piece is about limitations and expansions. The thing is, when I start a piece, I rarely have a construct going into the work. Don’t get me wrong, there are many times throughout my career that I’ve had concepts for series and such but, as a standalone piece, I often just pick a color. For instance, this piece started in the deep violet you can see on the sides as well as bars both above and below the focal. Picking that first color to cover a blank canvas is the hardest part of the whole piece, if you can believe it. Here is wherein lies the limitations: color. As a musician is tasked to make an original piece with only so many notes on a scale, visual artists are really only playing with variants of three primary colors and maybe a white or a black. “But, what about ROY G BIV?” one may ask. Sure, the rainbow is the natural spectrum of colors we all know. Yet, if you think about it, rainbows are the primary colo