Sanctuary

Pastels on 9"x12" sanded paper. Framed under glass, matted to 8" x 10.5" opening, 15.5" x 12.5" size of outside of frame.

$300. Inquire with Images Art Gallery to purchase.

If you visit the Nature Sactuary in Parkville, Missouri, and wend your way along the forested trails, you'll eventually come to a set of small but quite beautiful waterfalls. With the sunlit canopy overhead and the splash of the water on the rocks, I felt like I'd been transported to a magical place...a sanctuary, indeed.

Water always provides a challenge - how do you render something that is see-through, and yet always full of color, changing with its own motion and the light? Picking out various colors in the white spray of the fountain was a lot of fun, and I hope I conveyed some sense of that 'santuary' in this piece.