Whoop whoop! This graceful animal is one of the greater hard luck to winner stories.
There should be hope remaining for all the rest of us so long as life is still ours.
Hopefully this lovely painting will fly down to Port Aransas on January 20th to mingle with others for their annual whooping crane festival exhibit.
Hopeful Horizons
As a painter, I love my supporters more than any of you can know. You keep me going, you are the stream that floats my boat. My desire is to keep creating things to draw our love and attention to what is good and right in the world. When my work is purchased and taken out to your world, the love goes both ways.
Thank you, dear patron, you who purchased this large work from the Port A Art Center this week. I am eternally grateful for the moral and financial support!
The moment of splashdown is captured. Water rolls away from this adult brown pelican in impasto waves that beckon the viewer closer. On closer look, the fine darker plumage glows in its transparencies of many shades of mahogany. Light reflects off of the wings, expressing the freedom of the sky in it’s echoes of color taken from the background of a colorful horizon.
Beast and environment are one, just as we all yearn to be one within our own environs and communities. Harmony in the work as in the wild.
Traditional oil techniques, including the use of marble dust in the impasto. Framed in a white wooden frame, hanging wire attached and ready to grace your wall!