Tangled Desert Grass on a Windy Day, © 2016 Sheryl Karas

This is another piece where I reached for a more colorful palette. My work used to be more colorful until I decided to be a "serious" artist, applied to MFA programs and chose to go in a more scholarly direction. It will be interesting to see what happens now that I have put that dream down. This piece feels transitional. It's part of a long time series of digital paintings done with multiple layered macro photographs of desert grass dancing in the wind. But I'm not thinking in terms of pleasing an MFA program anymore and the colors departed from the previous ones in the series. I did a few more after this that returned to the darker simpler palette I have been using -- I'll put at least one of those up soon -- but I'm starting to feel the urge to move back towards color.

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