October 23 - Reflections

Since I spend about half my year next to salt water, I have many paintings that deal with reflections. But the same knowledge about painting them would be applied to puddles or lakes.

It is certainly worthwhile to study the edges of reflections. That is where the action of the water displays itself. Breaks in the reflection occur at the edges as do the wiggles of the ripples. The reflection should indicate the movement in the water, not a mirror image of the object. Here are two paintings where my primary interest was the reflection of the boat hulls.