Cliff Diver at Sunset

About the work

Style

Romantic landscape with a graphic silhouette.

Medium

Oil or acrylic on canvas.

Palette

A warm-cool split: hot orange and vermilion sky against a near-black cliff and cool water shadow.

Composition

Vertical. A heavy cliff mass on the right; the sun and its reflected light path form a central vertical axis; the diver sits on the upper third.

Technique

A smoothly graded sky, opaque dark masses and a glazed, shimmering path of light on the water.

Mood

Exhilarating and suspended - a held breath.