Evidence Of City Life, Rattlesnake Creek, Dry Season
oil over acrylic on Cradled Panel
36 x 24 x 2
2025
Available
$600.00 USD
The full title for this painting is Evidence of City Life, Rattlesnake Creek, Dry Season. I have been walking by this very short arm of the creek for several years and have done small sketches and lots of photos. The area around the creek got drastically changed by the Helen Hurricane. Trees that shapped the shadow paterns are gone and weeds have replaced them. This painting is done from reference before the hurricane with oil sticks on top of an abstract acrylic painting titled Evidence Of City Life. It was originally a 48 x 24 cradle panel. Some years ago I cut the top 12 in. off and made a new 12 x 24 sun set painting.. (Ying Yang Sunset). This painting is over the remaining part of the original abstract. Some parts of the first painting can be seen through the oil paint. The sky area with the diagonal line is all the original acrylic painting. Some of the original acrylic can also be seen through the grass in the bottom left corner and, in a couple of places, textures made in the acrylic underpainting show up under the oil. Over the years, I had several ideas to combine the original abstract with a new painting. I'm happy with the decisions I finally came to.
The full title for this painting is Evidence of City Life, Rattlesnake Creek, Dry Season. I have been walking by this very short arm of the creek for several years and have done small sketches and lots of photos. The area around the creek got drastically changed by the Helen Hurricane. Trees that shapped the shadow paterns are gone and weeds have replaced them. This painting is done from reference before the hurricane with oil sticks on top of an abstract acrylic painting titled Evidence Of City Life. It was originally a 48 x 24 cradle panel. Some years ago I cut the top 12 in. off and made a new 12 x 24 sun set painting.. (Ying Yang Sunset). This painting is over the remaining part of the original abstract. Some parts of the first painting can be seen through the oil paint. The sky area with the diagonal line is all the original acrylic painting. Some of the original acrylic can also be seen through the grass in the bottom left corner and, in a couple of places, textures made in the acrylic underpainting show up under the oil. Over the years, I had several ideas to combine the original abstract with a new painting. I'm happy with the decisions I finally came to.