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- Oct 15, 2018
Black is a Color
I usually keep to a very limited color palette: dark brown and either brass/gold or silver. I have thought to try other colors but unless...
Beauty is where you find it... but you have to look for it. Sometimes this beauty is obvious but so often it’s subtle — hiding in plain sight. In my travels to Europe recently, I was surrounded by such beautiful art everywhere I looked. The most obvious was the art and architecture that highlighted not only an appreciation of aesthetics but of history as well.
Walking to the Rembrandt Museum in Amsterdam I found myself looking down, away from all of the beauty surrounding me. The ground was still damp form a short spring shower. The texture of nature next to the texture of man-made bricks took my breath away. It was that contrast aesthetic that I struggle to create in my work.