"Mood Lifter" ($60.00)

(adjusted price....$60.00....mounted on a 1.50" depth clayboard)

"Simple and beautiful form is a mood lifter." The power of artwork to comfort and bring joy is the best motivation for spending the time, effort, and energy it takes to create it and to continue improving skill levels. When people are in pain, they do not need the "bizarre" that is often seen in the art world. They need beautiful form that communicates...everything will be all right in my life again. It's a stabilizer.

Color is a powerful communicator. And a person does not need to understand it to enjoy its power to transform a mood or living space.

The artist, however, needs to make it a life long study. Even when you do that, there will be deeper levels of understanding on the horizon. In this piece, I had a good background of analogous colors.(next to each other on the color wheel) By using my knowledge of color, I was able to make it more compelling by adding purple which is the complement to yellow. You might be looking closely to even see purple, but it's there. The reason it is not obvious is because it was painted over yellow which "grays" it down into a rich neutral. It is in the darker parts of the background as well as the gourd. The lettering is also done in purple (Perylene Violet Gouache...WN)

This type of color sense is learned by doing . Even if you make a decision to simply paint a color on blank dry paper...allow to dry...glaze over with other diluted color, it is a valuable exercise to expand your knowledge of that particular color. Just something to think about.

Please contact me personally to inquire about this piece.