Behind The Scenes

 

FUN FACTS

• This painting started in a tiny art studio in Chicago's West Loop. It was originally sized at 24x36" before I scrapped it and made it 40x60".
• The first painting took 10 long months of 10-15 hours/day.
• This series was the FIRST time I have ever painted in Abstract. Up till this point I had always known what the painting would look like. It was so strange at first, but I quickly discovered it was LOADS of fun to paint intuitively. I know have a whole Abstract art collection. :)
• The first painting (Baroque) was shipped to London to compete in the annual National Portrait Gallery. Unfortunately it was not selected, but at least it got to travel!
• In 2014 I had launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the project, and was successfully funded over 16k! I was elated to have that kind of support from all over the world. 
• The German Expressionism portrait was painted in ONE hour flat! See the time lapse video!
• I was pregnant with my first child while making the surrealism painting. I had to temporarily leave it because the graphite was making me so nauseous!
• When I was trying to manifest the Pop Art painting- I put together a focus group and it still took me 5 months before the vision landed.