Yellow Flowers in a Yellow Vase Tank Top

2013. This started out as a palette painting; very abstract. It would be a painting of what my palette looks like...with a multitude of colors smeared all over it; kind of like a Jackson Pollock piece. Thats how it started and this is how it ended. It's highly textured as I painted over the thickness of laying down a lot of hue. One day I will paint my palette, just not today.

My husband, the artist Richard Wandell, passed away on December 5, 2022. Following is his biography. “A painting is never really finished, you just stop painting.” Richard Wandell was awed by art and its magical beauty for a long time and one day, after many years of lying dormant, he began to paint. It was 1994 and he had waited long enough. Now was the time he had to become what he should have been all along; he had to paint. Richard was completely self taught. He made an attempt to paint way back in 1978 but was so terrible he laid the brushes down. Then again in 1986 but oil paints were not for him. Then in 1994 he dipped his brush into acrylic paints and never looked back. When Richard Wandell painted he was inspired...