Rock Objects II

Rock Objects II

24" x 24"  acrylic on canvas 

The last of my rock paintings - for now ! I had a difficult time photographing this and getting the correct colours to show up. The dark values you see here are very dark and richly coloured, almost velvety in appearance. In order to darken these values I had to play with other settings, so while the photo is pretty accurate, the real painting is, I think, much nicer. 

Rocks as Objects

Rock Objects I

24" x 24"  acrylic on canvas  

This is for sale - contact me for price if interested.

Like others in this series, Rock Objects I was inspired by a detail from a photo of rocks on the shoreline. The challenge was to simplify the rock shapes but still create solid three dimensional objects. Then I re-arranged the rocks to improve the composition and allow the background or negative space to work it's magic. As for the palette, the colour blue reminds us of sky and water, and the best colour to go with that  one is of course it's complement, orange. Together they sing, don't you think. 

Rock Abstract

Rock Abstract

18" x 18"  - acrylic, pastel, pencil crayon on archival acrylic paper  

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This painting was inspired by the same photo of 'rocks in a stream', used as the basis for yesterdays' painting post.  

I had intended to paint more, but at this stage I really liked the painterly looseness, brush work and more limited (for me anyway) palette  - and so decided to stop. I think it was a good decision.