Showing posts with label falling water state park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label falling water state park. Show all posts

Monday, August 19, 2013

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary



A series of paintings of the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
near Naples, Florida.
I've spent many hours working plein air in this magical place- looking to capture the essence of the pristine Florida wilderness- perhaps somehow witnessing through proximity to these massively giant trees that are a living link to secrets thousands of years old.

Corkscrew Sentinels
16" x 24"

Corkscrew Giants
19" x 28"
Grove of the Ancients
24" x 36"
Corkscrew Sunrise
22" x 36"
Ancient Witness
18" 26"

Falling Water S.P. Florida



Here's the finished painting of Falling Water State Park,
The painting took some time for me to capture the essence of the falls. 
The sense of the mist and the rainbow materializing in a ray of light that falls into the shaft, with ferns
 clinging to the sides of the rock. Beyond and above there is the creek that tumbles forward, yet never reaching the river as it it's fate is to be swallowed by the earth.


Falling Water
18" x 20"

Here's a version with a layer showing a slightly darker rocks.


Florida Slash Pine Hammock

  Old Florida Slash Pine Hammock oil/linen 24" x 12" Old Florida Backcountry oil painting of Slash Pine  and Saw Palmetto Forest