Nathan Siler

A note from the artist:

I started my piece off by sketching out a rough sketch of the body(shirt, neck, ruffles, arms, etc.). After that I went to a separate piece of paper and did minimalist one-line sketches of my flowers/wildflowers. Once I had all my flowers sketched out I cut out each one and left some space. After all wildflowers were cut, I traced over my single-line sketch with a 0.5mm ink pen. After my ink pen had dried, I grabbed some water colors. Instead of coloring in the flowers I wanted to do something more out of the box and decided to flick watercolor droplets with my paint brush of what I believe the flower's true color is. After that point allowed each flower to dry before I collaged them over where the "head" would be on my previous paper. I wanted it to look as if the beauty was exploding out of the area so I collaged it in an assortment I found pleasing to the eye, glued it together, and allowed it to dry before I splattered more water color droplets expanding the beauty of the colors onto the base page. I thought this would give the page less white-space and add more depth to the image. Once I finished with the watercolors I noticed that the bottom of the page consisted of too much white space, so I filled in the man's shirt with a neutral-tone grey sharpie and lined the work in black-ink pen.

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