I started painting with acrylics in 2003, shortly after I finished college. I'll be using this blog to show the art that I have created, in mostly chronological order, and using this blog to give a brief background of the processes involved in creating art here.
This is one of my first paintings, from December 2003. This is my surreal landscape; I took a photograph of this scene at sunrise in Sequoia Kings Canyon on a camping trip during the late 1990s and held onto the photo for years. Later, in my first art class at San Diego City College, one of our early assignments was to render a painting of a surrealist landscape that defined ourselves. I included the footprints to signify the feeling I had at the time of wandering and seeking my way in life. The butterfly illustrates how I felt that I was metamorphosing -- I was in my mid-twenties and I knew my life was changing in unpredictable ways. At the same time, I was optimistic about changes occurring in my life. The door in the mountain also literally illustrates the door to the unknown.
Acrylic on canvas.
December 2003
18" x 24"
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