living room

This is a painting of a duplex living room where I once lived. Instead of painting the objects and the surroundings in their natural colors (realism), I choose to use warm colors for the room and cool colors for the objects in the room to add more contrast.

study

The following paintings are from a series of studies where I experimented with foreground and background ambiguity. The sixteen small squares framed in the larger square either blend into the background or seem to jump off of the canvas.


Study 011 creates the illusion that the small orange squares differ in color.









Study 014 makes the darker color squares appear to have greater depth.









In study 015 the right side of the painting has greater contrast.

color in painting

I painted these pictures a few years ago, wanting to explore how the same subject can be interpreted differently through color.