Study for rose-blue couch WINTER2020 the wild flowers are always

the wild flowers are always a challenge and a delight to draw and a whole universe of things ends up crowding in and around them

but always deliberate approach

and heavy impasto strokes to form alleys

Roadside sunflowers grow year round where I live and are so common that they’ve become the recurring center of many of these drawings

Study for rose-blue couch WINTER2020 the wild flowers are alwaysBrian Lotti Brian Lotti is a Brooklyn based painter. Lotti often sketches outdoors for source material, plein air, and uses varied swathes of vibrant color, quick staccatos, and heavy impasto strokes to form alleys, figures, horizons, color blocked houses on hills, and feathery trees to capture the spontaneity of atmosphere, light, and movement in the immediate environment. Lottis longtime involvement with skateboarding, as a pro rider and later