Bukowski Painting- Garden Path

William Bukowski

oil on linen      2008

Shadows on the Path

Certain paintings fall together faster and easier than others.  This was the last painting I started of the summer.  It isn't the last one I finished, but the last one I started.  Some outgrew me before I had finished on location.  I like the motif of the path because it literally takes you  into the painting and can sure metaphorically as a life.  At a certain point you go into the painting, but you can take an obscured right or a clear left.  Both are uncertain, but you will take one or the other.  You can linger with the light and flowers in the middle but at some point you have to keep going.  There is more to see if you go to the right and more flowers and a path through the trees....more light, more color, more brushstrokes....