Playa Daze I by James Edward Scherbarth

Yellow heat, teal shade, and no clear sign of a horizon.

Playa Daze I is a painting by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), worked in oil and cold wax medium on cradle board, signed and dated en verso, 2014. The medium gives oil paint a buttery body, letting a painter drag, press and scrape color into a surface with real physical depth, a method many abstract painters favor. Teal crowds the upper right, breaking into acid yellow. Sandy ochre takes over the rest, with flickers of orange and red toward the lower corner. Twenty inches high and twenty wide.

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