This is another painting to be added to my "Flow" series. While my portrait series seem to be more in demand, I most love doing these weird swirly paintings. I can not really explain why... but I will try. While painting a good portrait provides a sense of accomplishment (for portraits are a true testament of my patience as an artist), the flow series just pours out onto the canvas with ease. Portraits take tedious hours of observation, calmness in execution, and extreme attention to detail. While these traits are to be valued, and are ones I am constantly striving to become more masterful at, sometimes it is nice to relax and just melt with the paint. The flow series (unlike my other work) depicts the more hedonistic side of my art, the part that just spills out. There is no restraint, the lines just flow into one another with an easy rhythm. In fact in writing the word "rhythm" I wonder if this series has also been inspired by music? Because it is only with this series of paintings do I listen to my favorite songs. The use of feminine curves and organic circles provides a sense of harmony and peace like a melody. In the Flow series a more quiet emotion is expressed, a subtle comment on the a relationship between the paint, the world, and oneself in it. These I paint regardless of who else likes them.
