Nova Scotia Beach Stone, 5×7″, oil on panel. Sold.

Today’s piece is a little white beach stone that my wife collected (and now I’m forgetting where, it might have been on our trip to Nova Scotia.) Anyway, this piece is very high key, in a soft north light. I wanted something simple and pretty subtle today, and I think I got what I was after. I softened the back edge of the stone to help it recede and sharpened an edge on the front to help bring that forward. I tried to sharpen the edge à la Richard Schimd but my palette knife was too big to maneuver in the tiny space I needed to hit. I also made a slight darkening of the corners to give a little more depth to the background. All in all, I’m pretty happy with it.