I’m particularly attracted to flora & fauna that look fantastical but are real, from jellyfish to nudibranchs to seadragons. Jellyfish Rising is a culmination of working with different media separately over the past 15 years. I layered molding paste to create texture, oil paint to add color, then resin to lend transparency & depth. Finally, I finished the piece with oil painting a hyper-realistic jellyfish on the surface. 140 hours and over a year later, and I had a jellyfish! There is so much magic under the sea and I love capturing it.
I have a number of time-lapse videos and photos of this piece being created on Instagram:
Videos:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CH8VjLZh42E/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLxLxvnBa9D/
Photos:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMnrbyyB6My/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLX5yfFhgjo/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLCx9W3BVcE/
This 18" tall x 36" wide piece is created with oil paint, resin and molding paste. It is applied to a wood-cradled Masonite board, and it comes with a coated wire on the back, ready to hang.