For this series of pastel drawings, I used birds as a canvas or skeleton for my life experiences. Birds are familiar. My intent was to choose birds with the qualities and color of the feeling I was experiencing and push this otherwise controlled and dry medium to a point where it takes on an expressive, almost painterly quality. I chose bold colors and explored my ideas directly on the page. Cairns can commemorate any sort of event, from a battle to a basket of eggs dropped. Some mark a path [...]
"Colorful, creative:) I love the birds. Both the paintings are exquisite."
Marie
"i love it !!!"
emolly
"Joseph - Don't stop the kind of art you are doing!!! It is very gratifying to hear another pastel lover and pencil lover. I am not even as brilliant as you but I do love my pencils and variations I ca"
Becky
"im not guner pretend that i understand the meaning at all, im just gona say i just think that your work is wicked mate :)"
matt
