Shine, Shine

(The image continues around the staple-free sides allowing you to display this painting unframed. This is a digital photo. The scans above are more accurate.)

This painting feels like a Robin's song to me. Like some magical summer night where surprises lurk just around the bend. It feels ripe. This piece is packed with incredible color and light and filled with a wide array of touchable textures, too. Shine, Shine also continues my interest in the subtle inclusion of language in art. There is a single sentence painted in small, camouflaged letters along the bottom of the painting. The words read, "We are each responsible for keeping the light."

Shine, Shine was created in layers. First, I primed the canvas with black acrylic gesso and built up what would be the ground with artist-grade fine ceramic stucco. Once that dried, I used palette knifes to paint the warm, glowing sky with oranges and pinks and bits of pale yellow. And I used my fingers to paint the ground and the special trees. When that work had dried, I used a soft cloth to rub a sherbet color around the trees and along the horizon line. And finally, I used tiny detail brushes to touch up the edges of the trees, to add the lovely organic black lines, and to paint the words.

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