Spring Afternoon, oil on canvas 42x50x2 inches with frame, 2024

Original oil on canvas 42x50x2 inches with frame, 2024

Out walking and singing of warm afternoon,

Here the mist and leaves abound.

Marine Park, Brooklyn is just a couple blocks from my house. I go there almost everyday and observe the colors change over time. I tried to paint how I feel the colors change over time instead the moment. It took me a month to finish from start to finish.

Bright orange and yellow are one of those really good attention-grabbing colors. They are vulgar colors, more than a little pushy, but one can not keep away from them. They are relate wonderfully with cool blue and purple, like in this painting.

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.