Original Painting: Notes From My Father by James Edward Scherbarth

Rust, ochre, and a line of writing that stops short of saying it.

Notes From My Father is an original painting by James Edward Scherbarth, oil and cold wax medium on cradle board, signed and dated on the reverse 2013. Cold wax lets a painter build translucent layers and rework them over days, a method suited to private, meditative pictures meant for quiet rooms. Deep red and rust cover most of the board, darkening toward the corners. A band of ochre and grey-green runs along the top, with pale marks like script set just beneath it. Thirty inches wide and twenty-four high.

Some notes are not meant to be fully legible.