maps and legends

"Next time I will go to Paris (and leave the boy behind)"

This is another in the Maps series and my favorite. I planned all of the paintings so that when they would hang together in a show, it would look like the model was spinning around in the frame. Painting people is one of my favorite things to do. Although lately I have not been motivated to do so and that has been bothering me.
Oil on Canvas with cold wax medium.
24" x 48"(?)

maps and legends

This is a painting that I finished a few years ago. It is one of the first paintings that I did with a journey theme. At the time I was interested in the paths that life takes. About how our mental state affects our outlook on our surroundings and vice versa.
I used oil on canvas for these and experimented with a cold wax medium that gives the paint a nice matte finish. The photo turned out light, so the colors here are not true.