#herbstoriginals

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This year is about practicing portrait paintings. Thank you Atlas of Beauty for providing beautiful photographs to use as a reference. 

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Geode 

72 x 36

Commission for a coworker. I loved painting this piece; it was my first time painting with metallic accents as well as being the biggest piece I’ve been able to work on. 

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I've spent the last couple hours attempting to paint a circle over my insane texture.... I may be losing my mind a bit.

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Moons

14 x 18

“It's all about the moon I must've lived a thousand times But there's a small town in my mind How can I leave without hurting everyone that made me?”

Regina Spektor - Small Town Moon

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I guess this is just one of those paintings that is perpetually in the ‘work in progress’ stage.

I just can’t quite see what it wants to be yet. 

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Agony

24 x 36

“One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.”

Irving Stone - The Agony and the Ecstasy 

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Gamma Ray

24 x 48

“Hit me like a gamma ray Standing in a hurricane And I'm pulling Out thorns Smokestack lightning Out my window I want to know What I've lost today”

Beck - Gamma Ray

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Mt. Lace

40 x 60

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Wandering

15 x 30

“And the days go by, like a strand in the wind, in the web that is my own, I begin again.”

-Stevie Nicks, Edge of Seventeen

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Infinite

36 x 48