The Morning After

(24" x 36") - Acrylic Paint, Plaster, Gesso on Canvas  Estimated Shipping Cost and Sales Tax are not included in the sale price!  Full color prints are available upon request. This third installment in my pareidolia series of paintings invites your brain to take a journey with my brain to the edge of a windswept wood where dawn is breaking through the web of leafless trees veiling the edge of a new morning. Like it's predecessors, this painting is predicated on the idea that our brains tend to find meaningful patterns within completely random stimuli. In this piece, I scored the wet plaster vertically with slight variations in the angle and depth of strokes, not thinking ahead to a preconceived result. The resulting under layer of plaster and gesso gave me nothing to grab onto in terms of a compositional direction. So I literally threw wet paint at this canvas and worked it in with a scrub brush.  Then I moved puddles of paint around with a squeegee. Layer after layer, layer up