What I love about water – ocean, lake, river, waterfall – is how it is always changing. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même. Change is inevitable. The challenge is how to capture the depth, the movement. In my abstract, acrylic paintings, water sometimes looks like water, but it also sometimes looks like space or sky. Honestly, it’s not something I always control. Some paintings just happen.
What I love about water – ocean, lake, river, waterfall – is how it is always changing. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même. Change is inevitable. The challenge is how to capture the depth, the movement. In my abstract, acrylic paintings, water sometimes looks like water, but it also sometimes looks like space or sky. Honestly, it’s not something I always control. Some paintings just happen.
I've never painted much with red (it's close to my least favorite color) so deciding to do something on a square canvas with red surrounding a white center was quite a challenge. A little red, a little magenta, a touch of yellow which turns into orange ... pretty soon it starts to look like something. Preserving the white was tricky. Adding that filmy quality was fun. Who knew I'd end up liking red?
2019 Acrylic on raw canvas Size: 16"x16"