Dunes III, 2010, oil on canvas, 8"x8"
This is the third painting in the exercise I’m doing to jump-start my summer painting. I don’t normally use a lot of greens…it’s such a hard color to make look right. Just a little too much and it just looks cheesy. This is still not jumping in there with both feet, but I’m getting myself ready to really explore green tomorrow. I really like how this one teeters on the edge of abstraction. My favorite paintings are the ones that become a surface and pattern of marks up close and only really resolve into recognizable imagery from a slight distance.