Painting-A-Day: July 10, 2013

Acrylic on Archival Gessobord with 3/4" birch sides, 12x12", Ready to hang!

How many times do you search in vain for words to express something, and just can't find anything adequate, anything that gets remotely close to what you are trying to say. The language of visual art has the ability to speak, can somehow express what we are feeling without needing words. Music and dance do this. Poets do this with the art of words...somehow tapping into just how to say something, where our response is, yes! when we hear it. I painted this painting on June 21st originally, in reaction to my time in the Normandy area of France, visiting Omaha and Utah beaches....reading about D-Day. I was sad as I painted it, thinking about the lives lost and damaged because of war. I let this painting sit over these many days, re-visiting it every so often. I began to notice that  the colors I used served as a balm to that sorrow, the colors of sand, beach, sky and water. So soothing. A promise of healing. I felt that something was missing, though.There was no place to land, to give the eye and mind a rest, a place to listen. So, I added white paint in the four corners, while letting the movement of white continue from the original painting through the new additions. I like it so much better. I feel it is stronger. Sometimes time is necessary for a painting to be born into what it should be.

This painting has been altered...and SOLD!

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