Painting on Paper - Jellystone #3 by James Edward Scherbarth

A pale, striped pod drifts in from the left, as if floating on a red tide.

Jellystone #3 is a painting on paper by James Edward Scherbarth, in oil and cold wax, signed and dated 2017 on verso. Working with cold wax lets a painter build translucent layers and scrape them back, so earlier colors keep showing through. A rounded lavender form, ringed by concentric lines in green, gold and coral, takes up the left half of the sheet. To the right, rows of soft pink dots line up on the deep crimson ground. It is 12 inches wide and 9 high.

It might be a stone. It might be swimming.