Gallery IV – Shale Series

Organic things appeal to me greatly.  While on a hike in Colorado, I found some shale and felt that I had to do something around these pieces of rock so I loaded up my backpack.  Shale is a fine grained sedimentary rock composed of a mud mix of flakes of clay minerals and silt-sized grains of other minerals.  It breaks off in fine, thin layers, as I have used in this series of paintings featuring shale pieces.