Finally!

Cadenza    oil on birch panel   36″ x 48″    $2000  unframed,  ready to hang

All winter after Ed broke his leg I escaped to the studio when I wasn’t needed and worked obsessively on just one painting.  It’s larger than most and I’ve stayed with it much longer–scraping down and repainting over and over.  I think I needed some distraction, repeated problems to solve.  It’s another in the cloud series for a show I’ll do in 2012.  It started off with a photo I took late one afternoon but very little of the photo remains.  Compositional structure and the path of light offered the challenge and I invented clouds where they would fit my purpose.    I considered other titles, like “Carried Away” or “Extravaganza” because I was so taken over by the whole process.  I hope some of my frenzy is reflected in the painting.

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