Windward Break, oil painting by MJ Costello
Landscapes

Windward Break

Oil on canvas · 30 × 24 in · 2024

A wave breaking in a cove under the windward cliffs, a rocky bluff on one side and green headlands fading back into the haze. This was a cooler, brighter kind of day, more silver than gold, and I leaned into that. I built the rock and the spray up thick and kept the far cliffs soft so you feel the distance across the water.

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