Cradle

A vertical painting of an abstract night sky in dark blue and black with flecks of gold leaf for stars. the title is Cradle and it is by artist Randall Stoltzfus

This medium-sized vertical night sky painting was made using hand-mixed ultramarine blue and flecks of 23K gold leaf.

It is the first night sky I’ve painted using the vertical format, and I think the …

“Cradle”

Nightshade

An abstract dark blue and brown painting titled Nightshade by Brooklyn painter Randall Stoltzfus. The painting is made of many hand-painted circles nd the center glows with a green-gold iridescence

This painting uses a subtle green iridescent color that I find mysterious. I don’t really have words for the way it resonates within the rich blue background of this painting. But I do find …

“Nightshade”

Silver Bay S22-3

Abstract dark blue watercolor with a gold leaf circle centered in a white frame. The title of the watercolor is Silver Bay S22-3 and it is by artist Randall Stoltzfus

Where do we come from, who are we, and where are we going?

Paul Gaugin

This on-the-spot, in-the-rowboat improvisation was the painting that inspired me to try adding gold leaf to a watercolor painting. …

“Silver Bay S22-3”

New Moon

A dark square abstract painting of the moon. The moon is dark blue and black, and is surrounded by a halo of small gilded circles. The painting is titled New Moon and is by Brooklyn artist Randall Stoltzfus

The intense blue featured in this small square painting is a hand-mixed matt acrylic ultramarine blue. The close light to dark relationship of this very saturated blue and the near black that make up …

“New Moon”

Narrows

A yellow, dark brown, and blue abstract landscape made up of very many tiny circles. The painting is titled Narrows and was painted by Randall Stoltzfus and suggests a landscape with a yellow sky

A painting about light on the water (one of my favorite things. Also something about time in this one, at least for me.

I used iridescent paint on the highlights, which is difficult to …

“Narrows”

Wood

An eight foot painting in blue and gold titled Wood by Brooklyn artist Randall Stoltzfus. The painting shows a burst of gold light in an abstract forest clearing. The painting is made up of dark vertical bands and very many hand-painted circles

This painting started mid-pandemic. At the start I was thinking about the forest at the beginning of Dante’s inferno. But something lighter occupied the painting by the time I was done, months later. The …

“Wood”

Half-fathom

Dark Blue painting with many tiny hand painted circles in white, silver, gold, and green that radiate down and out from the center of the top edge, titled Half fathom and painted by Randall Stoltzfus

My title for this painting, Half-fathom, is a reference to Jackson Pollocks vertical canvas Full fathom five at MoMA. Pollock’s title comes from a passage in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, where the character Ariel describes …

“Half-fathom”

Omega

A vivid spectral rainbow of hand painted circles forms a hlo around a shadowy tree-form in this dark, large scale canvas painted by brooklyn artist Randall Stoltzfus

From the press release for the November 2020 solo exhibit Widening:

Omega, his largest work in two decades, takes the physical composition of a rainbow as its inspiration and expands the palette to encompass …

“Omega”

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