Passing Shower

This is called "Passing Shower" and just this week sold at the Beacon Fine Art Gallery i Beacon, NY.

The gallery is the invention of Roger Greenwald, not only the director of the gallery but the owner of the Spa and Inn at Beacon as well as the architect of the newly constructed five story contemporary brownstone.

The Beacon Fine Art Gallery

The Inn and Spa at Beacon

151 Main St.

845.205.2900

www.innspabeacon.com 

Hudson Sunset

This painting was an exercise in color from a sketch I made at the Vanderbilt estate along the banks of the Hudson in Hyde Park New York. I tried to keep the pitch down using fully saturated color so that the sun would have sufficient contrast- much the way one would pitch the sky in a snow scene lower in value in order to make the snow appear bright. The foreground trees are silhouetted in dark values to establish the vignette and range of tone. I alternated cool and warm reds in the clouds to distinquish between the sky vortex (light filled air) and the cooler cloud shapes. In the sky zenith(top of the vault), I substituted a thalo green-viridian mixture without any blue to push the color contrasts between the red and greens. I suspect this kind of color layering and emphasis is what Rothko was exploring in his "landscapes".