"Pond Rising" by Scott Gellatly is at Laura Vincent Design & Gallery until July 27. Photo: Laura Vincent Design & Gallery
Painter Scott Gellatly made multiple sketches of a local wetland using casein, a water-based paint, as a reference for a body of oil paintings and monotypes of the same subjects.
His work became semi-abstract so you can see the original forms but also get lost in the rhythm of the shapes and colors.
Zoom in: Grasses are fluffed up, bursting with energy, and water reflects as cleanly as a mirror.
Fun fact: For years, Gellatly worked for Gamblin Artists Colors, sourcing pigments and developing new colors.
🍊He uses just six or seven tube colors for 95% of his painting, and his favorite color is cadmium orange.
"Color isn't just the describer of the subject matter, color becomes the subject matter of the painting and landscape is the vehicle which I use to express that," he told Axios.
If you go: "My Wetland" is at Laura Vincent Design & Gallery through July 27.
