Springtime Emerging

I finished this one a few months ago but I'm just getting around to framing it now. It's probably my favorite of all the ones in this series yet! These are magnolia flowers just coming into bloom from more than one angle combined. I'm enjoying exploring a contemporary version of cubism. It allows me to show motion and the concept of portraying the multiple things we as humans notice in an environment that a single snapshot could never express. I'm not sure if I plan to sell this one except as prints. For the time being I'm keeping it for my private collection. It's mixed media but mostly oil pastel.

Epigenetic History, Mixed Media Painting

Epigenetic History, © 2015 Sheryl Karas

Epigenetic refers to the altering of DNA that is carried from trauma your ancestors experienced. I rarely go dark in my artwork in terms of emotional content but sometimes that's just the truth. At the time I painted this I was very frustrated and upset about my art career and the choices I could see available to me for a career of any sort. So I started this painting but then put it aside. Then my father died and I had a dream about his heritage that was affecting me -- a similar cultural heritage to the artist Marc Chagall who is also an influence in this work. He also rarely went dark in his paintings . . . but sometimes he did. So I continued. I was never happy with it though. So I took a photo, scanned it into my computer and made alterations and additions in Photoshop.

The original painting is gone but framed or unframed prints or prints on canvas or metal are available.