Painting on Paper - Jellystone #5 by James Edward Scherbarth

A broad plum shape leans in from the top edge, stitched across by two thin golden lines.

Jellystone #5 is a painting on paper by James Edward Scherbarth, in mixed media, signed and dated 2017 on verso. In abstract painting, a repeated motif across a series is often a way of testing how small changes in color and placement alter a whole composition. Here a wide violet form with a rounded end slants down from the top, outlined in yellow and green and marked faintly with pale dots. Darker maroon dashes run down the right side of the scarlet ground. It is 12 inches wide and 9 high.

Number five, and still finding new angles.