Finished Painting: Dichotomy

"Dichotomy" is an original 22" x 28" oil painting created on a 1" stretched, high-quality canvas. The painting is presented as unframed (Sides are painted).

The concept of this painting is to show differences between the man-made structures and the natural world. The man-made structures contain metallic, reflective surfaces with unnatural colors. The corresponding natural world contains various harmonious hues with no linear lines.

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Finished Painting: What Makes a Mountain

"Shaping of a Mountain" is an original 16" x 22" oil painting created on a 1" stretched, high-quality canvas. The painting is presented as unframed (Sides are painted).

The concept of this painting was based on defining the basic components for the shaping a mountain. These components were defined as three basic parts: ground, water and air. The ground component is the mountain itself and the platform that it rests on. The air component that shapes the top of the mountain is the wind and the clouds. The component for shaping the base of the mountain is the surrounding lake. The "Shaper" is represented by the abstract shapes and interacts with all of the base components to alter the mountain.

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Watching the Clouds - Original Oil Painting

"Watching the Clouds" is an original 12" x 16" oil painting created on a 1" stretched, high-quality canvas. The painting has been securely varnished and is presented as unframed (Sides are painted).

The concept is based on seeing images in the clouds. When we were kids, we could spend hours watching the clouds and telling our friends what shapes we see. It was a simple way of passing the time, while letting our imagination expand.

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Encroachment - Original Oil Painting

"Encroachment" is an original 16" x 12" oil painting created on a 1" stretched, high-quality canvas. The painting is presented as unframed (Sides are painted).

The premise of the painting relates to a tree having a nice warm day and basking in the sun. However, the material world and nature itself, in the form of storm clouds, abruptly changes the situation. The dominant forms of the storm and the shapes try to overshadow the tree, but the tree remains resolute. It is only a matter of time for the storm to overtake all.

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Failing to Blend - Original Oil Painting

"Failing to Blend" is an original 16" x 22" oil painting created on a 1" stretched, high-quality canvas. The painting is presented as unframed (Sides are painted).

The concept arose from thinking about how corporations try to blend their structures in with the surrounding landscapes. The basic method is to place a lot of trees in front of the building. However, due to the unique colors and sharp lines of the structures, they never truly blend in.

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Time for a Change - Original Oil Painting

"Time for a change" is an original 22" x 28" oil painting created on a 1" stretched, high-quality canvas. The painting has yet to be varnished and is presented as unframed.

The concept of this painting was based on showing the tree how it went from its youth (represented by the stronger colors and fuller state of the other trees in the background) to a more interesting and unique tree (represented by the lighter tree in the foreground). Although the tree does not contain the stronger colors of its predecessors, it has a wonderful uniqueness due to its shape and color vibrancy.

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Nature Meets Technology - Original Oil Painting

"Nature Meets Technology" is an original 14" x 18" oil painting created on a 1" stretched, high-quality canvas. The painting has been securely varnished and is presented as unframed (Sides are painted).

The concept arose from thinking how machine-made items are always present in the world around us. In some cases, the architecture has a strong presence. In some situations, Nature and Technology blend extremely well.

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Leaves in the Arch - Original Oil Painting

"Leaves in the Arch" is an original 24" x 28" oil painting created on a 1" stretched, high-quality canvas. The painting has been securely varnished and is presented as unframed.

Based on a series of drawings representing the mixture of the natural world and the man-made world, "Leaves in the Arch" represents the character of how people accepts the gifts of nature for our own use.

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Chaotic Order - Original Oil Painting

"Chaotic Order" is an original 16" x 22" oil painting created on a 1" stretched, high-quality canvas. The painting is presented as unframed (Sides are painted).

The concept is based on watching waves. When you first see waves, there doesn't seem to be any rhythm to them, at any given time. However, the waves are reacting to the land around it. After a while, you realize that the land has a rhythm to it, the water has a rhythm to it, and the man-made shapes have a rhythm to them. All mirror one another.

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Towards the Beach: Final Painting

Towards the Beach" is an original 11" x 14" oil painting created on a 1" stretched, high-quality canvas. The painting has been securely varnished and is presented as unframed.

The concept of the painting was to emphasize different ways of approaching the beach. In this concept, we have the mountains directly accessing the beach from above, the water accessing the beach from the sides, and the abstract shapes accessing the beach from the bottom. All approach it from different angles, but all approach it at the same time.

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Finished: Reaching Upward

"Reaching Upward" is an original 22" x 28" oil painting created on a 1" stretched, high-quality canvas. The painting has been securely varnished and is presented as unframed.

The concept of the painting was to emphasize the broad strength of a mountain and show how it is constantly reaching for the sky above it. The abstract shapes represent the solid foundation that is always present for the mountain and allows it to reach higher and higher.

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Finished: Spirit of the Bonsai

"Spirit of the Bonsai" is an original 16" x 22" oil painting created on a 1" stretched, high-quality canvas. The painting has been securely varnished and is presented as unframed.

The concept for the painting was to highlight the beautiful curving lines of the traditional bonsai tree and show how it always stands out in the world around it. The flowing shapes of the trunk and tree structure are sharp contrasts to the linear and direct lines of man-made objects. The simple elegance of the tree contrasts nicely with the darker and colder regions of the world that it inhabits.

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