La Brunette (2007) Painting by Vasqi

I started painting about June of 2003, because I couldn't find an artist who was capable or willing to execute an idea I had in my head. The idea called for colour, so it didn't lend it self to graphite or charcoal drawing. And there was a lot of colours with no discernible independent identity smoothly blended, so I knew that it would need to be a painting in order to to get the colours just right, and I soon discovered that it would need to be oil in order to get the smooth transition of the colour that I desired.

The first thing that I discovered about art is that it affects the way you see things in nature. I learned a lot about colour by mixing colours (not reading about mixing colours). The first thing I learned about colour is that things are not the colour that I thought they were. Mixing colour taught me how to see colour.

Almost 6 years latter, I've come to discover that the way you know when a work is done is at the moment that you realize how you could have done the whole thing better. Essentially, every work is an exercise towards insight. To this end, all of my work is explorative, in nature.

Aside of some drawing classes I took a couple years after I started painting, I am a self taught artist. I have nothing against artists who are formally trained. In fact, I go to great lengths to educate myself about art and I have a tendency to advise other (outside) artists to do the same. I have even made attempts to organize other artists, but that did not go as well as I'd anticipated, so I am back to working alone now.

• Nationality: UNITED STATES
• Date of birth : 1973
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• Groups: Contemporary American Artists