Wetlands Afternoon #4 - Peter Senesac

6 x 8 inches
oil on canvas panel
 
Painting, for me, is a chance to express alternate views and observations of my reality. My work is not about a particular place but it is usually about the landscape. I create a mood, to encourage the viewer to daydream, to remember, to invent a story. The idea is to communicate a sensation of a place. Composition, contrast, light and shadow, color and texture, are what I'm exploring. Expressive marks, exciting processes and experimentation are the means. Natural scenes are a starting point for depicting a range of emotions using various color themes and compositions. I'm a landscape painter but ideas can come from anywhere and the results can be on a scale from realism to unidentifiable abstraction. The design and feeling of a painting often start with sketches, sometimes the sketches are the paintings. Working on location and from life sketches allows me to study composition, values and color and make paintings that become more than a picture of an actual subject. Studio abstracts can evolve from finding design in the spontaneous application of paint and going where it takes me. However, sometimes the project requires planning based on sketches and reference photos. I use acrylics, oils, or watercolors. Paint is applied to canvas, watercolor paper, or prepared wood panels with brushes, palette knives, improvised tools and sometimes bare hands. I use techniques from washes, glazes and spattering to thick impasto. Finished paintings are protected with varnish. Peter Senesac JewelryArtStudio.com Peter@jewelryartstudio.com 352 373 683