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.
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I really can’t seem to stop painting water. Sometimes it looks like water, sometimes like space, sometimes like I don’t know what. This is my second painting in 2018 of the Merced River based on my memories from a trip to Yosemite years ago. This really does look like the water rushing around and over the rocks that I remember from the deck of the little inn where we stayed with good friends.
2018 Acrylic on paper Size: 12”x16”