“Stop!” New Palette Knife Landscape Painting
January 16th, 2013
“Stop!” ©2013 Niki Gulley
16″ x 20” textured oil painting on wrap around canvas
While driving from Santa Fe to Taos, this scene literally stopped me in my tracks. Something about that giant rocky mound rising up from the surrounding flat expanse contrasted against the complimentary colored sky was so graphic and surreal. Add to that the bizarre juxtaposition of the stop sign encroaching on what once was uninhabited desert landscape, and I felt like this painting had something to say.