One Day

One Day   oil/canvas   30 x 30 x 1.5

Late Summer.  A trip to our "way back" to dump garden detritus. A glance over to our out building that currently houses our wood supply for winter.  The light was spectacular!  ...it was the kind of situation that I often search for in vain.  This time it was, quite simply, happenstance. 

I have painted day lilies before.  They don't work that well singularly, but are dynamic as a group.  And, yes, each blossom blooms for only one day. 

While there were areas that offered up problems to be solved, the work was mostly simple in resolution.  My own cemented sense of design required a dark on the left edge....my preference always being to solve with value shifts.  And, yet, a heavy dark shape would have destroyed the feeling of lightness that day.  So my resolution, while a bit ambiguous, is satisfactory.  It definitely recalls the feeling that I had....that day....that hour...that moment.