My recent works tend to invoke the question- are they oils or Acrylics. My reply is neither since I work in egg tempera. I’m trying to achieve a painterly and impressionistic look commonly seen in oils or acrylics and never in egg tempera. My aim is to apply egg tempera in such a way that it looks painterly and impressionistic. I favor this approach because I think it injects energy and interest beyond more direct representation. But, I do not want style to detract from the essence of what I am trying to depict. In “Shaking it out” I have painted a rather common event of a little girl on the beach shaking out her towel, and yet, it is this action that interested me. She is an African American child who has dried herself from the ocean’s water and will soon bask in the Martha’s Vineyard sun. How privileged is this descendant of slaves and by this very act and the manner in which it is painted, she is set apart.
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