Lee Bogle Cross Stitch Designs

For Bogle, the process of creating a painting starts with a bold watercolor wash. "The most exciting and challenging part of the painting experience happens when a brush loaded with several colors of paint hit a very wet surface of watercolor board," says Bogle. "The explosion of color and formation of texture and shapes that happen spontaneously is the foundation for the painting's development." It is on top of this abstract water color wash that images emerges with the use of airbrush, colored pencils, and pastels. Bogle also enjoys creating many of his images with pastels on a handmade bark paper. The paper has a very textured surface which portrays an aged and primitive quality, and lends itself well to Bogle's style.