Suspended Landscape

Suspended Landscape

Modeling paste, pearlescent paint, glass bead medium, textured gesso are all part of this new landscape painting. It is so difficult to tell from the photo, but all of the paint in the "background" is white. Some is pearl white, and the pearl color sometimes photographs as a very bright white, and sometimes a gray color. 

20" x 16"

Painted with the finest quality heavy-body acrylic paint on acid-free, heavy weight Fabriano watercolor paper

Ready to frame

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As different as it is from many of my works, I am really liking this painting. I love the "dirty mixes" of color that would be so difficult to achieve with traditional brushwork. I used palette knives and silicone brush/blade type tools, marker caps, and various other things to achieve what I found interesting to look at. I am pleased with the light to dark variations where sunlight is suggested in the green and blue patches of color. The strong diagonals keep the viewers' eyes engaged and moving around the painting. There is also almost a cradling shape in the lower third of the painting. Can you see the part I mean? (I wish you could see it in person.)

I think this painting is already "speaking", but I would love to hear your thoughts about it. I will share one of the passages I read from the Old Testament that felt like it spoke to what I was feeling as I painted. 

1 Kings 19:11-12 The Lord said [to Elijah], “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord. Look, the Lord is ready to pass by.” A very powerful wind went before the Lord, digging into the mountain and causing landslides, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper.

Elijah the prophet recognized that God was speaking to him when he heard the soft whisper, and at that point of the story, God strengthened and encouraged Elijah and sent him to the next stop on his journey. What must it have been like to experienced the stormy conditions on that mountain before the quiet voice - whew!