Blue Kids Collection 1: With each of the portraits in the series, I’ve aimed to capture the tremendous joy, and complete abandon expressed by the children. I’m drawn to images of children at the stage in their lives before they are concerned about how things are “supposed to” turn out in a given moment or with a given activity...while they still simply act. There is a recklessness that comes across in their faces, and a mischievousness when they begin to sense they may have gotten away with something. I want the viewer to feel that reckless joy.

I work in very bright colors, colors I’ve come to term - in the vernacular of music - the “major” colors. I rarely complete portraits in flesh tones because I do not want to focus on the likeness of the individual, but rather the experience of their moment. I want the artwork to present a particular personality and transcend it at the same time.

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