Memorial Day

The pat two weeks I've been honored to work on a very special project for a friend of mine.  This piece will go to the winner of a competition being hosted to raise money for the Lone Survivor Foundation- an organization dedicated to never giving up on those that never give up on us (their motto)- http://lonesurvivorfoundation.org/
It took me several days to even come up with ideas about how to make art to honor this organization and even more so that honors the veterans it serves.  After a lot of research, I came up with these five options:

It took some time to figure out how to incorporate paper into the pieces, which were originally commissioned as paintings.  I've been wanting to push into mixed media and this presented the perfect opportunity to infuse paper and paint.  The result is really exciting because each piece is better with combined mediums than if they were made entirely from paint or entirely from paper.

After presenting the five options to my friend hosting the competition, he picked this one for the winner!

I'll also be making these two in 16x20 as separate commissions and am hoping for more from the competition!