Palisade Painting

There's an odd, wonderful kind of light on late summer afternoons along the river valleys of northwestern New Mexico. I've never seen it anywhere else, and from watching other artists respond to it, I know it's really there. Somehow the red-golden hills seem more amber and mysterious, the greens burn like emeralds, and even the humblest roadside shrubs become magical. 'Palisade' was painted in acrylic on cotton canvas, from watercolor sketches I'd made years before. This version was primarily done in palette knife and silicone-tipped scrubbers, with an underpainting of thick parallel ridges of gesso. Layers of acrylic paint float in a slow-dry acrylic medium to mimic a marbling effect. Soft interference blue and purple overglaze the sky and vegetation. Because it was worked on a commercially stretched canvas, then removed, the selvage is 3.25", with a 1" matching teal border.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:30 W x 40 H x 0.1 D in

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