oil on hardboard panel, 5" x 7"
For this little palette knife painting, I used a photo reference. Although Ha Long Bay is in Vietnam, this scene reminds me of my time in China in 2013, floating down the Yulong River on a bamboo raft, surrounded by these monolithic karsts. The haunting echo of birdsong off the karsts lends a dreamy, otherworldly feeling to the scene. This will be my 22nd painting as a result of that trip, and I feel I have at least 4 more Asian paintings in me yet to come.
