Shoreline

David Librach ..., about 1 year ago

Just gorgeous! I can feel the power of the water against the shore.

bluerabbit, about 1 year ago

LOL! I love your name! What’s your favorite? I like The Castle—but, I digress, I love this piece. Everything is where it belongs.

kafka, about 1 year ago

Its The Trial, I was reading it when I joined so the name came naturally (k was to short ) – now I,m digressing, thank you both for the kind words.

Bente Hasler, about 1 year ago

I love this! Really beautiful work.

MtnMan, about 1 year ago

I like it!

Songtd, about 1 year ago

Beautiful !!

shanghaiwu, about 1 year ago

when I 1st looked at this i thought it was a closed eye /eyelashes and then thought maybe something else….........it is a wonderful piece of art/thankyou for sharing

Jennifer Lachney, about 1 year ago

I really like the colors in this one.

Helene Kippert, about 1 year ago

Beautiful work!

kafka, about 1 year ago

Thank you everyone for your wonderfully supportive comments , this is a new work first shown here, visually simpler and more ‘abstract’ than my earlier work. Thank you again for all of your
encouraging and kind comments.

doppelganger, about 1 year ago

oooh, I like this very much.

nick board, about 1 year ago

Exceptional piece

Paul Tupman, about 1 year ago

This is a fantastic piece.. the texture of the water as it laps against the shoreline is awesome!

sharka, about 1 year ago

Superb colours!

sharka, about 1 year ago

Superb colours!

Jordan Duff, about 1 year ago

Oh wow! Now this is something special! The texture, the colours, the composition all wonderful. This painting is just so rich. A joy to behold, thank you.

Susan Grissom, about 1 year ago

THis is beautiful and rich. love the colors

kafka, about 1 year ago

All of this attention is very flattering – when I look around the bubble and see all of the fabulous work that you are making I feel both inspired and humbled – I am so happy that so many of you like this work – I tried to push my boundaries with this one and, judging by all of your comments I’ve managed to get something right – thank you all…k

Jordan Duff, about 1 year ago

Wow, Thank you for your wonderful comments Kafka.
If this is you pushing your boundaries then keep on pushing because as I said, this is something truly special.

Basia McAuley, about 1 year ago

The blues in this are so brilliant, love it!

Susan Trigg, about 1 year ago

This is wonderful work – love the texture, composition, colour – all comes together beautifully!

Kathie Nichols, about 1 year ago

Almost like an aerial view of the seaside, gorgeous colour and texture!

kafka, about 1 year ago

Thank you Jordan, Basiamc, Susan and Kathie..k

Inktart Art, about 1 year ago

simple…beautiful…

kafka, about 1 year ago

Thank you Inktart….k

Carmen Cilliers, about 1 year ago

A stunning abstract – your colours are brilliant!

StacyLee, about 1 year ago

I really like this!

kafka, about 1 year ago

Thank you Stacy and Carmen..k

Jellie, 11 months ago

It seems to have so much depth, I just want to explore!

Christopher Ge..., 10 months ago

Nice!!

C.C. Arshagra, 10 months ago

This one just rips me! I must say that it is the third time I’ve been here to see this one and my eye consistently sees it from a satellites point of view (Title or no title), —yet I’m on it, if not in it . It has a truly amazing power to draw one over to it and in.

It really lands somewhere!

LisaB entity, 10 months ago

this is a stunner gorgeous texture

Kathy Kuzma, 9 months ago

the sense of depth you’ve created in this one is gorgeous! Beautiful colors!

Andy Evans, 9 months ago

Love it, the colours speak more than words …... great work
(fellow Welshman)

jomash, 8 months ago

Wonderful, this makes me feel like I am falling into the water.

HydeSide, 8 months ago

WOW! Brilliant. Feels more like the cliff’s edge to me.
Fantastic palette and texture.

Elizabeth Duncan, 8 months ago

Wow this is stunning! Beautiful work.

kafka, 8 months ago

Thank you all for your very kind and encouraging comments.

Caroline Bland, 8 months ago

Another stunner

margaretfraser, 7 months ago

love your colours great work

caroline (caux..., 7 months ago

grand!

Nancy Fischer, 7 months ago

Texture and color and this is absolutely perfect!

Vytas Gaizutis, 7 months ago

This is breathtaking. I love it!

Karin Taylor, 5 months ago

fabulous! i love it too!

mogodbeer, 4 months ago

I love this, the energy and the beauty.

Heather King, 4 months ago

vibrant and surreal

Deb Gillett, 4 months ago

Hi Kafka, can I please ask a technical question about any medium you use for the glaze layers, and how long you need to leave it before applying another layer? It’s so rich, I’m jealous. Oils really do leave acrylics for dead.

kafka, 4 months ago

Thank you everyone for your very kind comments

kafka in reply to Deb Gillett’s comment, 4 months ago

Deb, thank you for the kind words! – It was a fairly complex painting, the first layer is a thick impasto acrylic white just trowelled on with a pallette knife. Once dry there are several transparent acrylic glazes laid on then a layer of transparent oil paint thinned with turpentine and a small amount of poppy oil – layers were added one by one gradually reducing the turps and increasing the poppy oil until a pure oil mix is reached – each layer takes longer and longer to dry, the final layers take about a week each. The very last layers (2 in this case) are very lightly tinted linseed oil – they took ages to dry properly – there is no real rule with this, you have to just try it and see.

kafka in reply to Deb Gillett’s comment, 4 months ago

ps. there is a controlled wet-in-wet bleed top centre of the blue area where I tried to get the effect of a river estuary seen from above – that was just like a watercolour technique inserted half way through the process.

Deb Gillett, 4 months ago

Thank you kafka. Now all I need is a little more patience…. who am I kidding a LOT more patience!!!! So is this experimental or do you actually know it won’t deconstruct over time? Have had that happen recently to one I was thrillled with and it’s a little hard to take.

kafka in reply to Deb Gillett’s comment, 4 months ago

In theory it should stay in one piece! Oil over acrylic should be OK
(I hope so as it has been sold!)

ginnymac, 4 months ago

never got around to say how much I am rapt in your paintings. fabulous.

justjason, 3 months ago

This is so astonishingly beautiful…amazing colors!

Holly Werner, 3 months ago

Beautiful work. I love everything you do.

rightasrain, about 1 month ago

Wonderful painting! So inspirational… I must get back to work! – painting, that is :) :)