This is a small oil painting – I think it is 12″X9″. This one was kicking around my studio unfinished for a really long time. I left it up on my painting wall but I had stopped working on it ages ago. I thought I had reached some kind of painterly cul de sac on this one but I left it up anyway. This morning I was working on some other things when I started seeing this one a little differently and went to work on it. This sparse little painting is called The Sky is Falling.

The Sky is Falling

I was very conscious of not over-working this one. My thought was that a painting that sat unfinished for so long should retain some of that quality, so I worked up the image keeping it as gestural as I could live with. This one is oil on canvas by the way.