Friday, February 2, 2018

Grassy Island Rocks - Oil Painting

Grassy Island Rocks
Oil paint on canvas
48" x 60"
$4,500

This is a dramatic painting of a rocky shore on Grassy Island on Rainy Lake in Northern Minnesota. This is the biggest painting I have created in the last few years. It was fun to paint big again. Its liberating to be able to make big strokes of paint without ruining anything. Smaller paintings demand more control. Also, it was a fun painting in that the surface has many layers showing. There are areas where the mineral spirit soaked paint drips down the canvas and leaves a wash, like in watercolor. There are other areas that are thick with paint, and yet other areas that have several thin layers of oil soaked paint on top of each other.  It was a very fun painting to make.

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