You're My Rock Painting

I played around with Gamblin's cold wax medium in this painting and thought about themes of strength and fragility. I love the texture I can get with the cold wax, you mix the oil paint directly into the soft, beeswax medium about 50/50 and it dries quite hard after a few days but it feels so beautiful like a hard candle when it dries. I varnish it with a protective coating when it's completely dry so it's safe, it won't melt. It is so much fun working with a palette knife, getting the rough edges of the rocks, and the thick areas where the light hits the bird. And then smoothing out the finer areas with smaller brushes. It's a challenge sometimes merging the rougher wax areas with the more realistically painted areas but maybe those challenges are what I like about it. Working on the rocky outcropping and trying to decide how much to fill in and how much to let the light swallow up I couldn't help but think about the solidity of the rock formation and the fragility of the bird and how at that moment the tiny little chickadee looks as if he's King Of The World. Maybe we're wrong to just assume the rock is the strong and the bird is the frail in this situation. The rocks are stuck there, while the wind mercilessly beats them down year after year making them infinitesimally smaller and smaller. While the bird will ride the wind, using it to get from place to place like his own personal Über. The wind will come along in a minute and the bird will sweep along with it, it'll take tiny pieces of the rock along with it as well but the rock has no choice when it leaves. Unlike the independent-minded bird. It's just the cycle of things. Birds are quite strong and resilient in their way and maybe mountains are not so immovable. There's strength and fragility in everything I suppose.

Painting:Oil on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:18 W x 24 H x 2 D in

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