Color

Color.  Maybe I can just say all of my work is about color.  That is what most of the decisions I make are about.  The big decisions, "what it is" or "is of" I decide once in a while, but then the problems of how to make that come alive starts, and most of those problems involve choosing color.  Color and movement.  I'm interested in the hows of a painting, most of the time I am painting it.  A the holocaust and stuff...





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