Featured Painting: Receding Wood

 

Receding Wood Oil Paint on Canvas 72” x 24” $2,500

This is a large landscape painting of a lightly wooded area in Northern Wisconsin. This is a painting whose colors got away from me. I used the same paint colors as all the rest of my recent paintings, but something in the mixing went in a different direction. Bright and electric, the colors capture a canopy changing with the seasons. The ground cover is in a charged dialog with the canopy while tree trunks create a rhythm of strong verticals across the picture plane. The whole composition is anchored by the receding purple of the understory that moves into the distance.