Blue and Brown Make Sage

20 in x 24 in

each - 01/2023

I painted these matching pieces with a specific spot in mind - the family room wall in my parent's house in Florida. I was chatting with my mother on a recent trip down there about potentially doing a pair of paintings for her walls there. She likes browns and blues, and there are notes of sage in the room as well. The painting was made with a geometric compass, so the lines are mainly curvy. I used transparent paints which were applied by bouncing the brush to give a glow to the colors, and I leaned heavily on metallic paints to give pizzazz. What I found interesting was that when I mixed a blue color with a brown color, what I got was sage - a kind of earthy green. So there are 5 different examples of that in the piece, each sage made with a different brown and blue. In the end, it came out wavy and geometric and beautiful.