New York based artist Judith Braun takes the childhood painting technique to a whole other level. She fingerpaints these amazing portraits and landscapes just using charcoal. On top of her landscape works, she also does amazing symmetrical patterns as well. She often uses both of her arms simultaneously in order to create symmetry in her pieces of work.
“Abstraction keeps the images free
to be anything, while the symmetry resolves that fluidity into
something, like liquid energy crystallizing. The crystal metaphor is
also reflected in the carbon medium of graphite that, under heat and
pressure, becomes a diamond. Working within constraints prompts a
proliferation of possibilities that self organize into groups and
subgroups, from which I then choose some to render carefully by
hand…with diamond dust.”
