Decay Under a Bright Blue Sky / Homage to Fall

Decay under a bright blue sky / Homage to Fall
mixed-media on panel
2006
17" x 35"

This humble and poetic little piece is one of my favorite landscapes. It's part of a series I call The Perfect Fall.

I used a process similar to some of the dimensional aerial paintings where I draped panels with wood and paper. Here I draped vellum over wood panel and used pencil to make rubbings over the textured surface, which gave birth to the tree-like forms. Then I painted the sky with cerulean blue acrylic paint. The flatness of the blue paint offers a watery, sinking and sliding contrast to the spiked and desiccated wood forms below.