Abstract Watercolor Painting, Intertwined

Intertwined is an abstract watercolor and ink painting. It represents two life lines that are closely connected, intertwined, but are nonetheless different. No matter how close two people are, they will inevitable have different life experience. If a relative dies, everyone in the family will go through their own grief, to each person the diseased meant something slightly different. If two people get married, it too will effect them in a different way. Just like lives of two people can be connected in so many ways, these two lines too are connected. Just like no two people will live the same exact life, nether are these two lines identical. They twist and turn into different directions much like the lives of people.

I have painted a similar painting before, but the colors I used were different. Two lines had their own range of colors that were not present in the other line. For this painting I decided to repeat the colors in both lines to show that although lives are different, we can have similar experience but at different times in our lives. One person might find love at 16 while another at 80.

Original Painting $100

  8.5x11 print $20

Pen and Ink Fantasy Drawing, Inner Peace

Inner Peace is done in color ink. I first colored the back ground with watercolor paint and drew everything else with pen. This drawing is the first in a series of portraits of women living under water. In this drawing I wanted to capture inner peace that I myself often feel when drawing or simply sitting in the woods by the river with out a worry or thought. This fantasy drawing started as an experiment and turned into a successful series of drawings. I'm planing on drawing related series of drawings in a different setting, so it was a very successful experiment in this respect. When I sat down to draw all I knew was that I wanted to draw, but had no idea what to put on paper. After looking through magazines I finally got inspired. I took a few references of the pose from the magazine and combined it in a sketch. I decided that this was a perfect opportunity to use my color ink set, so instead of coloring using watercolor I used ink. I decided that for underwater theme wavy line approach to inking would work well. Plus it's not the kind of inking I usually see, so introducing something new in this drawing was an added benefit. The underwater towers were born after I already finished the face. I knew I couldn't leave the back ground blank, so I started brainstorming possible backgrounds and eventually decided old looking towers would combine well with the overall theme of serenity and peace. I decided that cool colors and the peaceful water will help underlining the feelings portrayed in this drawing.

Original Painting $100

  8.5x11 print $20