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"Shell"
#002-SL

About the original painting: The size of the original painting is 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on board. Date painted: February, 2003. Exhibited at the Addison Gallery, Orleans, Massachusetts in August, 2003, the original painting is now in a private collection.

Painting a shell can sometime be a lot harder than painting a beach. This particular shell was on a shelf in my Connecticut studio for over a year. I kept studying it and trying to figure out how to capture the luminous effervescence of its surface. The right day came around and I simply picked it up, plopped it on a table and went at it in a single, intense session.