Oil on masonite 9X12. This time of year at Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, Maine.
Good job with the rocks !
Great light and shadows, I saw one of your paintings posted on the Fine Arts site. Looks good.
I really like your colors and composition and sense of contrast here. I do think that the painting straddles a line between a completely naturalistic representation of forms, especially in the trees and water, and a more stylized system, as in the simplification of the rocks and clouds. It's just me, but I'd like to see it go decisively in one direction or the other, and if it were my choice, I'd vote for stylized. There's a million people who can do a naturalistic landscape at this level of technical polish, but relatively few who can come up with a stylized system who also have your ability with color and observation. Your clouds and rocks are nearly iconographic already, and just a little push would make the whole thing assertive and unified - firmly in the relatively sparsely populated Georgia O'Keefe camp of landscape.
Thanks, Gene and Sharon, I'm glad you like this one. And thank you, Dan for such a thoughtful comment. I guess we're all trying to find that certain, elusive and undefinable something that instantly identifies our work, known as style. For me, my struggle is trying to keep from being too specific, and too representational. Which is what I've done here- a little bit of both. 'Tis a fine line, but you've given some great insight to guide me.
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