Purple Haze Original Painting

Purple Haze Original PaintingPurple Haze Original Painting 2023 Acrylic and Epoxy on hand cut MDF board 24x28 inches approximately Purple Haze is a tribute to a variety of different purple botanicals that I draw inspiration from. Nature will always be my biggest influencer. Lavender has been my favorite aromatic for as long as I can remember. I finally got the pleasure of seeing a lavender field in person, while traveling through northern Oregon, so that influenced the focal

Purple Haze Original Painting

2023

Acrylic and Epoxy on hand cut MDF board

24x28 inches approximately 

Purple Haze is a tribute to a variety of different purple botanicals that I draw inspiration from. Nature will always be my biggest influencer. Lavender has been my favorite aromatic for as long as I can remember. I finally got the pleasure of seeing a lavender field in person, while traveling through northern Oregon, so that influenced the focal landscape of this painting. The flowers encapsulated in the dome are inspired by some I saw on my travels through California, although I’m not sure the specific species. The juicy berries are a stylized interpretation of Marion berries which I also first discovered here in Oregon. Not to mention I was recently told that my aura is purple, so makes sense that I’m reflecting that into my painting. This was also my first time using a monochromatic purple underpainting, prior to glazing the warm to cool palette over top. So despite this painting only having purple accents, it truly is a purple haze throughout. This painting pushed me to grow in more ways than I can fully comprehend at this time. It is the first die-cut I’ve done with shapes cut out of “middle” so that was extremely challenging to tackle for the first time.