Roebuck Painting

I've been painting borderline abstract expressionistic paintings to try to capture the experience of the Ocean. These have taken weeks and are layered and repainted, and layered. I stretched a new canvas, thinking I was going to start yet another attempt at capturing the lure of the Ocean, Instead I drew on it, lightly. I love the Lascaux cave paintings and I am enamored with the concept of The Roebuck in the Thicket who calls one to leave the well trodden path and create a new one. This is explained in far more detail by Joseph Campbell and Robert Graves in "The White Goddess". Normally I would start adding more paint, maybe some color, but there is something that is so beautiful to me about the simplicity of this piece. I decided to try something new, and leave it as it is, a memory, a movement, something so light that it cannot be captured. It is painted and drawn on canvas. I stretched and sized lightly with rabbit skin glue. I love the feel and look of raw canvas, so I added another layer of Gamblin PVA sizing.