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.
Black is often a dead color; you can't use it at all in watercolor. But I wanted to do a night sky over water and make it very dark. So I decided to try black using acrylic. It's certainly dark, but the color isn't dead, as it would be in watercolor. An experiment that worked out.
2019 Acrylic on raw canvas Size: 20"x30"
