Acrylic on Archival Gessobord with 3/4" birch sides, 12x12", Ready-to-hang!
*This painting has been changed and a new version will be posted the week of July 8th.
Today as I paint, I am not sure where I am going. But as the painting progresses, I start to feel the sorrow I felt as I walked on Omaha beach and through the American and German cemeteries in Normandy last week. When I was there, I didn't have time to deeply reflect on it all, I could only experience it, take it in, feel it, see it. I have been reading Stephen Ambrose's book "D-Day". I am beginning to understand the costs of this war, the human cost. The chaos, the carnage, the reality of war. To stand on that beautiful, peaceful beach and look out to the calm sea and think of what happened there is so incongruous that your mind can't accept it as true. So today the colors of beach sand and water pulled at me. And it caused me to think of those days in 1944, of those young boys on both sides of the conflict, of the men and women who were part of the resistance. It brings tears to my eyes. Oh the beauty, oh the sorrow, oh the things we humans do. It breaks the heart that we squander the gifts we have been given, this world and each other.
Light in the darkness. The natural beauty of sea and sky, beach and stone and the human condition. I started with the pure beauty of the blue. Over that the colors of sand and stone. I added heavy, imposing darkness. At the end I used the movement of pure white light on top of the darkness. I hold out hope....that Goodness will win the day.
This painting has sold in its final version posted August 6, 2013.
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Light in the darkness. The natural beauty of sea and sky, beach and stone and the human condition. I started with the pure beauty of the blue. Over that the colors of sand and stone. I added heavy, imposing darkness. At the end I used the movement of pure white light on top of the darkness. I hold out hope....that Goodness will win the day.
This painting has sold in its final version posted August 6, 2013.
If interested in purchasing, hit the Painting-A-Day Purchase tab and then hit the Etsy widget.
It will take you right where you need to be to purchase the painting of your choice. Thanks!
$100 for this original painting, ready-to-hang, plus $15 shipping and handling.