"burning"

One of the pieces that really excited me to make the most this past year was this portrait which represents a statue modeled after the late Tibetan monks who immolated themselves in protest of war. The statue was created by my mentor David Settino Scott as a part of his ‘A Pure Working’ collection. This particular statue inspired me because of the pure emotion and feeling that it emits. I was intimidated by working with this size of canvas early on, as I hadn’t painted with oil in over two years and had never really worked at this scale with oil paint. As I came back to it week by week though, the piece came to life in an entirely different way than I expected. Working with this piece reintroduced me to glazing with oil paint and gave me the confidence to work bigger.