Tyree Broadway Statement

As a child Tyree would roam his childhood home and touch all the bumps and ridges on the artwork his parents had.  He didn’t know this could damage the work but as a child nonetheless he was drawn to the texture.  He wants kids to enjoy and be drawn to his work as well.  Therefore, he incorporates many of the same things he was and is attracted to in his art.  Texture and wildlife have a prominent role in what he creates.

Artist Tracy Klinesteker

“…Standing in the cold with…a seismically red autumn leaf…it’s color hitting our senses like a blow from a stun gun,…we stand with a huge grin, too paralyzed by the intricately veined gaudiness of the leaf to move.”
— Diane Ackerman, “A Natural History of the Senses”, 1990, p 256, Random House.
It is all about color! I have always reacted very strongly to it. As my favorite author Diane Ackerman describes above, I am sometimes too stunned to move.
 I paint with pastels because of this love for pure color.
Pastel sticks are pure pigment with binder added to keep them together. The less binder, the purer the pigment, the softer the pastel. Soft pastels blend beautifully and create that lovely, painterly brushstroke. Hard pastels and pencils are for straight edges and fine details.
Because pastels are an opaque medium, I have to layer color over color to create blends. I work with sticks, pencils, and rubber smudgers. I try to avoid using black and white for shadows and highlights, and make different marks to create texture and depth. I gravitate toward detail in my paintings, but recently, I have tried to loosen up a little. I work an area until I feel it looks right to me, then struggle to leave it be. I find pastels a fascinating and challenging medium to work in. My subjects are eclectic. If a scene strikes me, I’ll try it. My abstracts are pure color celebrations, using as many colors in my palette as I can. I have fallen deeply in love with this medium and I am having way too much fun!