St. Michaels Dawn
© 2024
Media: oil on canvas
Location: in their collection
14 x 37 inches
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For those of you with low vision:
This panoramic painting shows a shoreline meadow of deep green grass looking out, across water, through two large trees silhouetted by an intense sunrise orange in a sky that’s white to pale peach to pale violet to pale cobalt blue and cerulean, with backlit clouds (in soft cobalt greys rimlit mauve) that cross diagonally up from the center sun to the upper right corner, forming a sort of triangle of shapes. The water is as bright as the sky, or more so, and on the horizon there are two classic Chesapeake log canoe sailboats arrayed in full sail, triangles of white and pale violet and blue-green that are catching the bright light, before a thin line of the opposite shoreline behind them. The two trees and their bursts of leaves pillar the foreground with the closest on the left dominating in its wide girth. Four chairs are lined up as front row seats under the second tree; two white and two navy blue. Where the water stretches around the painting, diminishing to a thin line at the horizon on the right, there’s a smaller secondary cluster of trees, pale green inflected with the orange light, standing before the cerulean line of sky and bright salmon light on the clouds that rise in the soft dark grey triangle of shapes.
