Wet Paint! Long Sands #3

Where does the horizon end? Where does the sky begin? Where does the water end and the sand begin? The colors are pretty but it’s confusing! Just some of the feedback I’ve heard from my family over the last week while I’ve been putting this together. It’s quite common that some of my favorite works are almost always the most misunderstood. With that in mind. Here’s the latest off the easel, and personally one of my all-time favorites: Long Sands #3.

In this visual I use my no-blending limited palette technique to capture the sensation of walking the euclidean plane of wet sand where the waves gently caress and recede leaving infinitely complex and dynamic patterns of light and water flow. If there is a hidden message within the painting it would be the adjacency of water and air. Separate yet deeply related, both fluid, dynamic, vibrant, like 2 sides of one coin of infinity. This, like most of my works, is a form of reverence for nature and the beautiful powers within we only scratch the surface of truly understanding. The exaggerated perspective of the enveloping sky and waterline are intentional, designed to portray a window you could climb through, or, water which is almost spilling out the bottom.

Or, if you’re my wife, you could say, “at least the colors are pretty!”. Well that’s art for you.

Anyways, this is a 24Wx48H oil on acrylic with a 5/8” deep canvas. The underpainting is magenta/blue. The overpainting is a 4 color palette of magenta, scarlet, yellow, blue.

The brush strokes, while unblended and unmodified, are replete with nonlinear characteristics that offer second, third, and fourth looks.