Stephen Wysocki

My process for making my artwork is usually something that visually grabs me. I see a natural shape highlighted in an odd color or a sunrise with an orange glow on a valley tree. I always like to start with a toned canvas RoseMadder, Cadmium Yellow Deep or Cadmium Orange are colors I usually choose. I recently have been experimenting with a color triad of orange, violet and green. It’s amazing how that has instinctively snuck up in my work. Thin washes of oil paint to thick sculptural highlights is how I like to lay my paint on using canvas or gessoed boards. In the past few years I’m always amazed how much the last few details really make a painting sing, sometime those details are obvious and sometimes a painting can sit for six months before the final touches are revealed.

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