Bursting With Love

This abstract piece started with the usual textural elements including pieces of a mandarin orange bag. I love the color effects that this mesh affords me. I wanted the finished painting to have more of a minimalist look than my others so I covered much of the underpainting with a transparent white glaze. A critique brought out the image of a heart with it's missing part in the upper left hand corner. After an initial layer of resin, I strew gold leaf flakes across the surface followed by a second layer of resin. The effect was twofold....a unification of the two parts and a 3D look. 

Sometimes the artist just knows when it's done.