Paint it Black (Bold Life Magazine)

Pick up an issue of this months Bold Life magazine to find Daniel McClendon on the Cover!  What’s even better is the great article inside!

“On a sleepless night in March 2011, artist Daniel McClendon had an epiphany. He grabbed a notebook and compiled a list of attributes he would like a new body of work to entail. Some of the things he wrote: “Use simple source materials. Use Black. Be selective with color. Work in a stream of consciousness.” The last thing he did before going to sleep that morning was a gestural sketch of a buffalo. Within a month, that sketch would become the first of a string of imaginative paintings of animals ranging from gorillas to bees.”

Read the full article by Ursula Gullow here:  Bold Life Magazine