cat 5

Oil · 2026-09

cat 5, 2026 — oil painting by Ray Patrick

palm trees, Pop art, Oil

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Subject

A stand of tall palms in silhouette against a sunset, a dozen trunks rising the full height with their crowns along the top third.

Composition

The trunks are spaced across the whole width at uneven intervals and run from the bottom edge to the crowns, which cluster in the upper quarter. There is no ground and no horizon.

Palette

Cadmium orange and coral across the upper third giving way to viridian and teal below — a hard horizontal division of warm over cool, with no transition between them.

Handling

The ground is heavily worked and scraped, with incised marks and a dragged texture left in the paint. The palms are cut in flat over it, the trunks single unwavering lines drawn top to bottom.

Medium and support

Oil, photographed as a page of a portfolio book — the binding is visible at the right edge.

Signature

No signature visible within the painted area.