“Self-portrait #8 (CroboRab8)"

"There is no beginning or end to the lines. My criteria for success is if the viewer stops and doesn’t know where to begin. I draw constantly. It’s all free-flow sketches of whatever is influencing me or on my mind at the moment. I have thousands of drawings. Some turn into something and most don’t. When I want to actually paint, I sift through my sketches to find one or three that are worthy of painting. This mural, “CroboRab #8” for the waterfront is the editing together of two sketches.

“CroboRab #8” is not an immediate story. Is it one line or a few lines that makeup what they are looking at? It’s interesting that children usually understand my work faster than adults.

I like the way the colors for “CroboRab #8” balance each other out. The 11 shades of blue and grey along with the citrine yellow bounce off each other and change as the sun moves. In some lighting, the mural has depth; in the evening the mural is flatter. " -Bradley Hoffer