Spring Rain by Susan Rose - Top Green Gallery - Acrylic on Canvas 3′x2′

Susan Rose painted Spring Rain in the spring of 2008.

It is full of green gradients, hidden color and different levels of perception. Green is the main color with green edges, boxes and green accents. I asked Susan about the green in this picture and she said “all the different shades of green are the greens of nature. Specifically, there are these really bright greens which are the spring greens. The circle is almost a yellow but it is a yellow green.”

On of the things that I like about Susan’s paintings like this one is that you can hold it all four ways and see something different.

Shown here, with the yellow ball on top makes me want to see the yellow as the sun. Now the bright green on the bottom is grass with a yellow rolling hill and it is currently raining. The golden green leaf in the center looks like it is climbing towards the sun.

There is a form of gray that subtly dominates the image, going from one edge to the other. It looks like different things the more you let your imagination play with it. I asked Susan about the gray form and she replied, “it can be whatever you want to be. The gray is like the gray you see in the sky with rain clouds. It also makes me think about landscapes of snow capped mountains with sand dunes in the foreground. Others have mentioned it looks like fabric”

She goes on to say that it is whatever you want it to be, it’s what you see.

With the painting this way, the clouds are outlined across the sky. A green mountain sharply points out above. The sun is rising, it must be morning. It’s a spring rain of color as the greens, yellows, golds and a bit of red come raining down. The leaf again is climbing towards the sky.

Susan has used a canvas that wraps around the edge. She paints around the edge and in this painting, this is where she signed it. You can see her signature in the graphic on the left.

I asked her to tell me about the green triangle with the blue streak in it.

I like the brightness of the blue it’s a little discordant thing. it’s peaking out from behind the white gray shape and it is the only blue in the whole entire picture. It’s a little bit of a surprise because of the touch of blue there. It’s just like the red over here, it’s the only red in the picture.

Spring Rain is a pleasure to look at with it’s green gray with bits of yellow and black with touches of brown. The colors of the earth after the sky has had it’s Spring Rain.

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