PRINTEMPS/ visionary figurative mixed media digital art

                                                     

                                                      Printemps

                                                      2010
                                                      by Eric Whollem
                                                      mixed media digital art
                                                                  Copyright by the artist.

THE FIRST LEAF OF SPRING/ wax resist on paper/ FIGURATIVE ABSTRACTION

                                           

     

                                                  The First Leaf of Spring

                                                  1986
                                                  by Eric Whollem
                                                  wax resist on paper
                                                  Collection of the artist
                                                  8.5" x 11"
                                                                                     Copyright by the artist

An Allegory of Spring

This wax resist was painted in a small studio at 1400 feet in
the Sierra Nevada foothills. This terrain is filled with valley
oaks, gray pine, ponderosas and manzanita. The outcrops of
granite have clusters of stonecrop, a native succulent. It was
always the first green leaf of the dwarf oak that was the first
sign that spring was on the land.