“A Candle in the Dark?”

Oil on canvas, 16”x20”

Sometimes I take a perfectly good, realistic painting, like a candle burning in the dark, and make a few changes. Just a couple of tweaks. That’s exactly what happened here.

I love turning realistic paintings into abstracts, especially when I’m painting faces. And especially when they’re not going well.

But neither of those things applied this time. The candle painting was fine, just too boring. So I decided to spice it up.

I love these kinds of paintings, even though most people don’t.