Small original oil painting of Buttermilk Falls in Ithaca, New York, 6x9 inches, with water winding down over the layered shale ledges of the Finger Lakes gorges.
Ithaca is my hometown. I grew up surrounded by these gorges and waterfalls, and I loved them, but I didn't really see them until I went back years later, after my parents had moved away. Coming home as a visitor, I noticed everything I used to walk (or run) right past.
At Buttermilk, what caught me was the path of white water traveling through the brownish gray stone. The color is quiet, almost subdued, but the shapes make up for it: the stepped ledges, the flat shale creek beds, and the patterns the water makes as it breaks over each drop. It's a place that asks you to look a little longer.
Part of my fall series of small paintings, each one a single moment of light.
Title: Finger Lakes Cascade Original oil on panel, 6 x 9 inches Signed on the front Unframed Free shipping within the US
Small original oil painting of Buttermilk Falls in Ithaca, New York, 6x9 inches, with water winding down over the layered shale ledges of the Finger Lakes gorges.
Ithaca is my hometown. I grew up surrounded by these gorges and waterfalls, and I loved them, but I didn't really see them until I went back years later, after my parents had moved away. Coming home as a visitor, I noticed everything I used to walk (or run) right past.
At Buttermilk, what caught me was the path of white water traveling through the brownish gray stone. The color is quiet, almost subdued, but the shapes make up for it: the stepped ledges, the flat shale creek beds, and the patterns the water makes as it breaks over each drop. It's a place that asks you to look a little longer.
Part of my fall series of small paintings, each one a single moment of light.
Title: Finger Lakes Cascade
Original oil on panel, 6 x 9 inches
Signed on the front
Unframed
Free shipping within the US