"Fluffy, then Hard" Painting

The painting is of a view in the Borrego Desert in S. California. Traveling in the western parts of the United States is always amazing to me as a person who grew up on the east coast and didn't get across the Mississippi until I was 30 years old. The natural landscape out there, California, for instance, is on a scale very different from the east coast. There is a long history of landscape painting searching for the sublime; this painting is just one of my additions to that category of painting. The painting is not just about the subject matter, though. There is effort on my part to create a visually dynamic image, with perspective both in the clouds and the plain and mountain surfaces. The ocotillo plants were the final addition. I don' think the painting would work as well without those lacy, linear plants. The work is on cotton canvas, acrylic primed, and fastened on the back face of the stretchers with steel tacks. There is a layer of titanium white underpainting that has marble dust grit included, giving the surface a bit of texture before the colors were added. The price for the work includes an artist-fabricated (by me) box frame made of soft maple finished with a translucent white lacquer, and strengthened by carbon fiber corner brackets, which also hold the painting in the frame.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:50.3 W x 41.3 H x 1.8 D in

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