Tuesday, January 18, 2011

"Aspen Lights and Shadows" original mixed media painting © Saundra Lane Galloway

 "Aspen Lights and Shadows"
12x25 mixed media on 1 3/4" cradled panel

Being new to this blog I thought I would start with my breakthrough piece into the style I now call my own.  Being a painter for over 30 years I tried oil, watercolor, acrylic, fiber arts, and a few others before I realized that something was missing.  I needed to find a style that I could settle on, but was unwilling to give up working with variety.  Variety of media, variety in style, variety, variety, variety.  In short, I worked a medium until I felt stifled and bored in some way and went looking for something to stimulate my creative vision.  SO, I developed a set of questions to ask myself, and then some specific challenges to FIND what I could find a LOT of excitement in, a LOT of inspiration, and working in paper and acrylic and sometimes oil, BUT working in a recognizable way found me. 
detail
"Aspen Lights and Shadows" reflects my love of trees, my love of color and texture; the whole shebang so to speak.  I sometimes add words as I have in this piece.."Aspen Lights and Shadows Weave Through" was my first.  And, sometimes I just stream color throughout and paint subject matter on top.  I am honored to be able to share this journey with you all!

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