Shoreline
This is an oil on canvas about 36” x 18”
The paint is built up in lots of thin, oil heavy layers
over a thick heavily textured impasto layer
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David Librach ...
Just gorgeous! I can feel the power of the water against the shore.
bluerabbit
LOL! I love your name! What’s your favorite? I like The Castle—but, I digress, I love this piece. Everything is where it belongs.
kafka
Its The Trial, I was reading it when I joined so the name came naturally (k was to short ) – now I,m digressing, thank you both for the kind words.
Bente Hasler
I love this! Really beautiful work.
Mark Ramstead
I like it!
Songtd
Beautiful !!
shanghaiwu
when I 1st looked at this i thought it was a closed eye /eyelashes and then thought maybe something else….........it is a wonderful piece of art/thankyou for sharing
Jennifer Lachney
I really like the colors in this one.
Helene Kippert
Beautiful work!
kafka
Thank you everyone for your wonderfully supportive comments , this is a new work first shown here, visually simpler and more ‘abstract’ than my earlier work. Thank you again for all of your
encouraging and kind comments.
doppelganger
oooh, I like this very much.
nick board
Exceptional piece
Paul Tupman
This is a fantastic piece.. the texture of the water as it laps against the shoreline is awesome!
sharka
Superb colours!
sharka
Superb colours!
Jordan Duff
Oh wow! Now this is something special! The texture, the colours, the composition all wonderful. This painting is just so rich. A joy to behold, thank you.
Susan Grissom
THis is beautiful and rich. love the colors
kafka
All of this attention is very flattering – when I look around the bubble and see all of the fabulous work that you are making I feel both inspired and humbled – I am so happy that so many of you like this work – I tried to push my boundaries with this one and, judging by all of your comments I’ve managed to get something right – thank you all…k
Jordan Duff
Wow, Thank you for your wonderful comments Kafka.
If this is you pushing your boundaries then keep on pushing because as I said, this is something truly special.
Basia McAuley
The blues in this are so brilliant, love it!
lizzy
This is wonderful work – love the texture, composition, colour – all comes together beautifully!
Kathie Nichols
Almost like an aerial view of the seaside, gorgeous colour and texture!
kafka
Thank you Jordan, Basiamc, Susan and Kathie..k
Inktart Art
simple…beautiful…
kafka
Thank you Inktart….k
Carmen Cilliers
A stunning abstract – your colours are brilliant!
StacyLee
I really like this!
kafka
Thank you Stacy and Carmen..k
Jellie
It seems to have so much depth, I just want to explore!
Christopher Ge...
Nice!!
C.C. Arshagra
This one just rips me! I must say that it is the third time I’ve been here to see this one and my eye consistently sees it from a satellites point of view (Title or no title), —yet I’m on it, if not in it . It has a truly amazing power to draw one over to it and in.
It really lands somewhere!
LisaB entity
this is a stunner gorgeous texture
Kathy Kuzma
the sense of depth you’ve created in this one is gorgeous! Beautiful colors!
Andy Evans
Love it, the colours speak more than words …... great work
(fellow Welshman)
jomash
Wonderful, this makes me feel like I am falling into the water.
HydeSide
WOW! Brilliant. Feels more like the cliff’s edge to me.
Fantastic palette and texture.
Elizabeth Duncan
Wow this is stunning! Beautiful work.
kafka
Thank you all for your very kind and encouraging comments.
Caroline Bland
Another stunner
margaretfraser
love your colours great work
Caroline Evans...
grand!
Nanmarie
Texture and color and this is absolutely perfect!
Vytas Gaizutis
This is breathtaking. I love it!
Karin Taylor
fabulous! i love it too!
mogodbeer
I love this, the energy and the beauty.
Heather King
vibrant and surreal
Deb Gillett
Hi Kafka, can I please ask a technical question about any medium you use for the glaze layers, and how long you need to leave it before applying another layer? It’s so rich, I’m jealous. Oils really do leave acrylics for dead.
kafka replied
Deb, thank you for the kind words! – It was a fairly complex painting, the first layer is a thick impasto acrylic white just trowelled on with a pallette knife. Once dry there are several transparent acrylic glazes laid on then a layer of transparent oil paint thinned with turpentine and a small amount of poppy oil – layers were added one by one gradually reducing the turps and increasing the poppy oil until a pure oil mix is reached – each layer takes longer and longer to dry, the final layers take about a week each. The very last layers (2 in this case) are very lightly tinted linseed oil – they took ages to dry properly – there is no real rule with this, you have to just try it and see.
kafka replied
ps. there is a controlled wet-in-wet bleed top centre of the blue area where I tried to get the effect of a river estuary seen from above – that was just like a watercolour technique inserted half way through the process.
kafka
Thank you everyone for your very kind comments
Deb Gillett
Thank you kafka. Now all I need is a little more patience…. who am I kidding a LOT more patience!!!! So is this experimental or do you actually know it won’t deconstruct over time? Have had that happen recently to one I was thrillled with and it’s a little hard to take.
kafka replied
In theory it should stay in one piece! Oil over acrylic should be OK
(I hope so as it has been sold!)
Virginia McGowan
never got around to say how much I am rapt in your paintings. fabulous.
justjason
This is so astonishingly beautiful…amazing colors!
Holly Werner
Beautiful work. I love everything you do.
rightasrain
Wonderful painting! So inspirational… I must get back to work! – painting, that is :
) :)Fee Dickson
Beautiful painting. Interesting reading abou the technique, too!
wendy45
amazing- feel like diving right in.
trand07
I like the bleeding paint in the top middle. it breaks up the deep blues well. great painting dude.
Sally Omar
Love this!!! Absolutely Beautiful!!!!!!!!! xoxoxoxoxo
Olga van Dijk
A W E S O M E !
JennyMac
Hi Kafka… I had a quick look here a few months ago and these images have been living in my mind ever since!! I’ve finally got back here to have a better look and I’m still blown away by these! Just love the brilliance of the colour and the texture… instant fav… : )