- In this Northeastern Night Scene Painting,
"Taughannock Falls Night" I was trying to place the
viewers perspective of the painting in the canyon as if one was
standing at the rocky edge of the pool in front of the falls
in the presence of the mist and the power of the eternally falling
water from above. As a painter I think that Taughannock Falls
is one of the harder things in nature to paint due to the fact
that it is difficult to get any distance from the falls and still
have a composition that expresses it's true nature, which for
me is a reality of intimacy, that is to say that one is inside
an incredible bowl of a canyon with every thing looming above,
falling,or waiting to fall, including loose rocks. So in this
way I wanted to place you, the viewer of mere painting in the
heart this great natural living thing so much bigger than than
it's visitors and inhabitants.The sun never really does more
that deliver a slice of light on the falls itself which makes
choosing the kind of light a bit tricky as well. It is not my
place to say whether landscape painting is true art are not,
however as a painter I do feel a strong urge to comment on this
example of profound natural beauty via oil paint and extend my
love of such beauty which exists all around us. If you can't
go to Taughannock Falls today then I hope as a viewer of this
painting that you will find a representation of some of natures
elements at work in this place present in my artwork Taughannock
Falls Night.
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