Lakes & Waterfalls
Moving water, still water, and everything cut by a river.
About Lakes & Waterfalls
Still water and falling water are two different painting problems. Still water is a mirror with a flaw in it, and the whole picture depends on the reflection being slightly wrong. Falling water has no shape at all, only speed, and the knife is the right tool because a single dragged stroke reads as movement in a way a carefully rendered one never does.
Teal is the color that holds this collection together. It is what you get when green from the bank and blue from the sky meet in water, and it appears here more than in any subject that does not involve a lake. Where the water is moving, the paint is thickest, because the white of a fall is physical paint rather than an absence of color.
Water is restful to live with and easy to place. These hang comfortably where people sit rather than pass through, and the natural wood frame keeps the greens from tipping cold.