Original Oil Painting, Abstraction with Crabapple Petal Paint

Abstraction with Crabapple Petal Paint, 2024

In the shade of an unruly silver maple, crouching on a lumpy lawn, trying to become an ASMR painting tiktok person for a hot minute, I pulled out my palette knife for the first time in a while. I dipped into my plastic bag of crab apple petal dust and mixed it with oil and cold wax. We painted the deck from top to bottom last year. I never, never, never would have chosen red, but my love likes bright colors too. He was right, as usual. He hands me a palette knife, he hands me petals, he hands me a chance to live a little more colorfully. I'm kind of a bench when I'm focused on work. Time to take a break and refocus on a peaceful evening.

-- X -- X 3/4" impasto oil paint on stretched canvas with crab apple petal inclusions