Atmospheric
Optics
Impressionist Reflections
Imaged by Les Cowley
Camera at left.
Claude Monet at right.
Tree tented pool
Breeze rippled glass
Sun dappled leaf
Echoed sky
Painter’s eye
Impressionist brush
Plein air palette
Sky pools. Each wavelet, each dimple, sculpts combined convex and concave. They cast back landscape and sky. Not once but several times. Inverted, not inverted, wrapped.
Impressionists saw clearly.
Tube paints, inclination and energy led them outdoors. They painted Nature directly.
Quick deft strokes captured the nuances of light and colour, of trembling water, of curling gnomic reflection.
