Kakabeca's Concertillion
Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 20 2012
$1300.00 Venue: Artisan Zone
This painting
captures a moment during a
vacation trip that took us
all the way around Lake
Superior.
Not far from
Thunder Bay is the very
scenic Kakabeca Falls.
I don’t know
what it is about water – it always
lends itself to making a
place seem magical:
the deafening
sound of rushing
water and foliage
rustling set the scene.
I wanted to
capture the energized
tranquility of the falling
water.
To express this
power, I painted
white water falling
against the dark wet rocks.
The white
water allowed for explosively
vertical shapes in many
colorful versions of white!
The horizontal
shapes of the dark
wet rocks are very
structural by comparison, and add
stability to the composition.
Usually, I don’t put human figures in my landscapes, but this time I did. There’s a figure in blue on an observation deck overlooking the falls and experiencing the tranquil energy. She’s standing in... to remind us of the physical experience of being where the power of water roars over rocks and the mist cools your face.