Early Spring, original oil on canvas 42x62x2 inches with frame, 2024

Original oil on canvas 42x62x2  inches with frame.

“ Spring groves, flower such charm,

   Spring birds call so in tune.

   Spring wind full of feeling,

   Life up shirt, touch tip of heart.”

I live just a couple blocks away from Prospect Park, Brooklyn NY and go there almost every day. Last year, when I passed by in May, I was sure that I found a perfect place with spectacular plants of living color to paint. Those bold purples and lavish pinks weaved intricate designs around the park and truly penetrated into the air. I painted a small version of this painting in the park and worked on this larger one later in my studio.

I like to paint the complexity of colors with a variety of strokes, layer after layer. From start to finish, each painting may take more than a month. I paint mainly with the palette knife to produce heavy textures and occasionally, in my final touches, use a brush.