Blue ZigZag - fun fun fun

Blue ZigZag

acrylic on paper - 11" x 11" - SOLD

Sometimes I 'design' my landscape composition, but more often than not I base it on something that exists. In this case I started with a photo I took in Shenandoah National Park when travelling through Virginia in late October. 

It's not much to look at, is it?

However I liked that one lone tree in the centre  and when I cropped it down and saw the the zig zag arrangement of the road in front I knew I had a design to work with, and then had lots of painterly fun!

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.