Prudy's process involves building textured layers of acrylic paints using brush, brayer, and palette knives. These are often combined with mono-printed papers or hand crafted stamp imprints. Bits of papers, fabrics, fibers, metals, markers, colored pencils, inks, and oil pastels are added. Organic items, such as leaves, twigs, and stones are often interwoven to create greater dimension and mimic feelings evoked through casual interactions with the natural world.
Take a mindful stroll outdoors. Challenge yourself to pay particular attention to the minuscule variations of pattern, color, tone, and texture. Draw inspiration from the intricacies noticeable once slowing down just a bit. Savor the simplest of scenery; the patterns of veins on a single leaf, the textural surface from the bark of a tree, the grain of weathered rotting wood, or the subtle nuances in tonal changes of color over the surface of a small stone. The ordinary can become unexpectedly exciting when viewed through a different lens, at a varied angle, or when compared to contrasting elements. Appreciate the rusty verdigris of metal, the layers of chippy old peeling paint, the blurred reflections in a puddle, and the crumbling brick remnants from a building. Let us resolve to celebrate what initially appears as ordinary. The mundane can become marvelous if we only allow ourselves the time to notice.
