Every wave has its own personality--a feeling it conveys to me as I paint. This one caught my eye with its joyous dancing light tripping across the top of the crest of the wave, sometimes tipping over the edge and sometimes kicking back as the droplets fly out and up. The challenge with painting moving water is to capture a sense of momentum, energy, even flight, with fixed strokes. I try to identify a feeling, then paint as loosely as I can to convey the energy I feel in form of the waves--through vibrant color, soft or crisp edges, and vivid contrasts.
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