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A while back I completed a version of Falling Water on black paper. I chose not to cut away the surrounding paper and added a moon and a few stars for a night time scene. I felt that it needed something more but since I was not 100% sure what to do I just put it away.
Months later I came across the work and decided to add a white layer. I wanted the house to look nestled in among foliage. Originally I was thinking of a mix of rhododendron, pines, and an assortment of leaves. With some consideration, lots of erasing and redrawing, I decided to just focus on rhododendrons.
Here is a close up of the back of the paper with my sketches. As I cut away the paper I try to be mindful of connecting my lines so they meet and things don't look disjointed or unconnected.
This work is really interesting because there is a big space between the front white rhododendron layer and the Falling Water but there are no shadows and the space between the two is hard to detect. I think it really draws the viewer in to take a closer look.
This work is framed in layers in a shadow box. The outside frame dimensions are 21"x17".