Seeking Wood To Make Fire

$880.00

Oil pastel on paper. 12 × 18 in. (30.5 × 45.7 cm)
2025, Sacramento CA

This work will be shipped in a rigid tube. It can be easily framed upon receiving.

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About Artwork

Seeking Wood To Make Fire is a vivid figurative landscape centered on a nude male figure standing on a hillside above a bright valley. A long, bare branch runs diagonally across the scene and into his hands, giving the moment a sense of purpose rather than pose. One arm crosses the chest; the other rests lower near the branch, as if steadying what he’s gathered.

The composition balances weight and openness. A dark cliff face rises along the left side, pushing the figure forward. On the right, the valley opens into saturated green and yellow light, with darker shrubs and distant hills fading toward a pale sky. Along the bottom edge, wildflowers spark in reds, oranges, yellows, and small blue accents, giving the foreground a concentrated burst of color.

Artwork Specs

  • Medium: Oil Pastel
  • Material: Paper
  • Size: 12 × 18 in. (30.5 × 45.7 cm)
  • Shipped in a rigid tube

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This piece reads strongly from a distance (bold figure + diagonal branch + bright valley) and rewards close looking with layered pastel strokes and broken color. It’s ideal for collectors drawn to contemporary male figure work that feels grounded in place and action.

Care note: oil pastel should be framed behind glass and kept out of direct sunlight and heat.

Please find more information on the artwork page.

Seeking Woods To Make Fire, (in progress), 2025.
Seeking Woods To Make Fire, (in progress), 2025.
Seeking Woods To Make Fire, (detail), 2025.
Seeking Woods To Make Fire, (detail), 2025.

This pastoral nude keeps things simple and charged: one figure, one bouquet, one wide landscape. The meadow flickers with small flower marks around the legs, echoing the bouquet in hand. The pose is calm but guarded, the face angled down. Color stays energetic and tactile, so the scene feels lived rather than staged.

Seeking Woods To Make Fire, (detail), 2025.
Seeking Woods To Make Fire, (detail), 2025.
Seeking Woods To Make Fire, (detail), 2025.
Seeking Woods To Make Fire, (detail), 2025.