The Edge

Here is the true beginning of my current project whch involves drawings and paintings of rocks and water in the context of an alpine setting. The center piece of this exhibition will be a drawing begun in 2006 on a 200' scroll of paper depicting a stream flowing along it's entire length. About five feet into this image I drew the stream leaving the picture plane by dropping off the edge of a waterfall that dropped down and away from the viewer inspired by and similar to the image in this 2003 oil painting. I drew about ten feet of rocky ground before actually deciding that the stream was to be the main subject for this particular undertaking. The stream emerged in the distance beyond he rocky cliff top that I was depicting at the time and continued thusly for the next 189 feet! The water in the valley below in the original painting here is rendered in gold metal leaf. This picture passed on to my brother this year as a birthday present and won't be in the show, so you get to see it here.