Lunamoth

This is Where the Light Comes From, acrylic 10x12"

This is a painting of how the early morning light comes into my kitchen and falls on the wall behind one of the counters — at least, that’s how the painting started.  Or, that’s one of the ways it started.  It really started because I wanted to do something with a lot of texture, so I applied a textured ground to a canvas and left it on the kitchen counter to dry.  The next morning I saw the light hit it and decided to base my picture on that.  Over the course of several mornings, I worked on portraying the light.  It has some metallic copper and gold in it that is a bit hard to photograph — couldn’t get it with my somewhat venerable Coolpix at all, so I had to ask Frank to take a picture with his much much fancier camera (one of the advantages to being married to a photographer) — but even he couldn’t get the metallic shine to show.  It’s a more interesting painting in person.

This is a departure from my usual style, but with the fingers on my painting hand still unable to do any fine, detailed work (getting better every day, though), I decided the time was right to try something less pictorial and with a looser technique.  I think I managed that here.

The painting reminds Frank of one of his photographs of Antelope Canyon, which is also a picture of light: Antelope Canyon 1.

Ok, I’m going to finish my coffee and get back to work on cleaning out the basement….