Denise Wellenstein Careers in Atlanta, GA

COLOR Color is very intuitive for me and is mainly what draws me to making oil paintings. MEDIUM In the medium of oil, I find the vibrancy and versatility to portray colors as I love to see them. DESIGN My paintings are a process of exploration of color. However, I rely on design elements, shapes, composition, contrast, texture to give depth, character, and energy to the colors. BEGINNING I rarely begin a painting with much more than a vague idea of what I where I want to end up. From beginning to end, the painting evolves as a non-verbal dialogue improvised between me and the canvas. What I see on the canvas suggests what changes I make next. I spontaneously choose colors, alternating between transparent glazes and heavier layers of paint. I experiment with different hues and saturations and how they blend with one another to create transparency and solidness. Though I work abstractly, I like to create illusions of near and far through shadow and light. Each painting is a progression