Sarasota Sunrise #1, 12×16″ acrylic on paper mounted on masonite.
This month I have one new painting on display in the State of the Art Gallery. Sarasota Sunrise #1 is a small, 12×16 landscape done with acrylics. In February 2014 Andrejs and I took a respite from winter, visiting a friend in Sarasota, Florida. It was a delightful location, with a stream and a broad expanse of savanna (a golf course) in back of the condo. I got up at dawn almost every morning and did a painting of the sunrise from the lanai, which is the Gulf Coast term for veranda. I experimented with a different approach to using the acrylics. Using water and retarder, I made them much more fluid than usual, which freed them to flow much more with the brush strokes. Working over many days built up the rich color in these paintings. This is the first of this series to be exhibited. Stand by for more in coming months.
