image progression: love’s accomplices

 

image progression: merchant of venice I

image progression: merchant of venice III

image progression: I cannot see her face through the fog of my own self-delusion

commission: thoughts returned to him

This is my third work for one of my lovely clients.  I posted image progressions for both her first and second commissioned works.  I loved making this piece.  Conceptually, this work is based on the realities versus the idealized versions of romantic love, both its amazing beauty and the potential of heartbreak.  The color palette...

commission: compiled by your sweet mother

This work meant a lot to me, primarily because I knew how much it meant to the woman who commissioned it.  My client had a collection of letters and well-loved family recipes, collected though decades.  These recipe cards were beautiful--they were hand-written cursive, or typewritten, stained from years of use, discolored as the papers aged....