Splashes Of Light

                                                   An original mixed-media painting, on toned paper
                                                   9x12" unframed, (mat size, 15x18")
                                                    $300.00, - (plus $15.00, pack and ship)


     One way of summing up the art of painting, is to say that it is our various attempts
at using paints on canvas, to capture the effects of light falling on a wide range of
surfaces.  From everyday, simple objects, to faces and skin, to landscapes and clouds,
or anything that we see, it is all defined by light.  And, it is the manner in which we
choose to express what we feel or want to say about what we see, which tends to
define the "style" of art we produce.
                                                   
                                                           ( click on image to enlarge)
                                                 

       This little expressionist or semi-abstract still-life, is from a series of limited palette
experimental studies, which I have referred to in previous postings, such as the one called
Sweet Cream And A Salty Pig.  As with the other pieces in the series, the subjects are
an unrelated selection of items gathered from the kitchen, offering several different types
of light-reflecting surfaces, from the ceramic pitcher, to the gleam of the metal vase, to
the square-faceted, pressed-glass, salt shaker with a metal lid.