Dapple Challenge

The Daily PaintWorks challenge this week was the dapple challenge. One early morning last summer I took a photograph of dapple patterns on my kitchen curtains. Windows open, no one awake but myself, a cup of coffee, warm morning breeze making the curtains slow dance. My favorite time of day. In the winter, not so much.
Painted in oil on a 16x20 inch canvas.

Dapple Challenge

One early morning last summer, I photographed the breeze coming through the open kitchen window. The shadow play on the curtains caught my attention, the sun rises to the right of the window and casts long, gray shadows on the softly moving curtains. It is quite a calming, meditative state of mind, that I hope I captured in this painting. I never knew the word for these shadows was dapple.

Painted in oil on a 16x20inch canvas.