Sometimes I begin a painting with great enthusiasm and then must put it aside as other works such as commissions come up...this painting began that way. It sat for at least a year, with me pulling it out of my canvas closet occasionally, but the momentum had been lost...

So several months ago as I began exploring various ways of using acrylics towards the Aerial/Valley Views I pulled this canvas out and said why not (!) and totally re-painted it. The under textures from the originally intended painting are still there but now has many layers of paint on top.... I spent days adding and subtracting from the composition as I looked for ways to capture the feel of what I loved about my work in oils...but in acrylic.

This is a painting of learning for me; one of those paintings where I let it take me where it wants me to go and not just where I demanded it. Even adding the "veils" of color is a revisit to aspects of my days with the "Serenity" Series... as then; here it brings to my mind the passage of time...as day flows to night and night flows to day.




A View From Above (series) (image shown) 38" x 49" Acrylic on canvas

(has extended painting to be gallery wrapped (total 52" x 42" plus 1" all around)).