Small Gray Square Painting
by Featured Artist: Elaine Close
Elaine Close, Small Gray Square Painting, acrylic, oil, graphite, and colored pencil on panel, 4.25 x 4.25 inches, 2017, photograph by Dragon. Courtesy of the artist.
Small Gray Square Painting
Elaine Close | Sept 2022 | Issue 18
I work in mixed media, predominantly oil paint on wood and paper. In addition to larger paintings, for about 20 years, I have been working on a series of small and tiny mixed media paintings, some as small as 1.5 x 1.5 inches, using combinations of graphite, colored pencil, pastel, acrylic, oil, watercolor, blood, and collage. My abstract paintings are inspired by organic shapes especially bird bones, and by the emotional power of colors.
Elaine Close is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. Elaine was born in Connecticut in 1970. She studied art at Connecticut College and after graduating she moved to Portland where she has been showing her work since 1992.