Beethoven

I love painting to Beethoven! My brush, filled with color, rising and falling with every note. The energy in his sublime music transfer through my arm and hand to the canvas, creating beauty, reflecting joy. When the mind clears, when it is just music and color and canvas, it is peace, it is power, it is an orgy of feeling, emotion, expression, freedom.

Contemporary Abstract Acrylic Palette Knife Painting by Brad Rickerby

Brilliance #2

6 x 6 x 7/8" Acrylic on Canvas Painting

Ready to be Hung

by Brad Rickerby

Available for sale, prints also available

This will be a short description. I set out to refine the techniques that I used in Brilliance #1 (see below). First, I knew this is what I wanted the outcome to look like from the beginning. So I set out with a plan that follow the experiment that I had previously used. I wanted more of the undertone dark colors to show through (which provides more depth and dimension to the creation) and I wanted the knife strokes to mix more colors within themselves.  Lastly I wanted the composition to be less linear. The idea was to let the more tightly planned painting look freer. I think I accomplished what I set out to, but that both paintings have qualities that are respectively better than the other.