Saccades XII

It's good to have a number of paintings going in the studio to work with. In this 12th Saccade, a very textural painting developed because Ken worked over another oil from 4-5 years ago. The heavy impasto that resulted took him back to those Monet works. It was a joy to create a forest with all of that ready-made texture. The purpose of the Saccades is to create a painting without a singular point of interest. Doing so presents a number of problems, first being that all the areas on the canvas are equally interesting. This is a good practice for most paintings anyway, so this oil puts that idea to task. There is the additional game in play here and that is depth. The viewer gets the impression of being in the darker part of the forest looking out. The light is there, but nothing much is revealed. There is a considerable forest pattern effect across the piece. It has an abundance of complexity and just enough depth to be an intriguing presence on the wall. On gallery-wrapped canvas with painted sides.