cat 9

Oil · 2026-09

cat 9, 2026 — oil painting by Ray Patrick

palm trees, Pop art, Fashion, Oil

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Subject

A stand of palms in silhouette against a sunset, two dozen of them at staggered heights, with nothing else — no horizon, no ground, no architecture.

Composition

The crowns are set at deliberately uneven heights so the eye travels along a ragged upper line, and the trunks drop straight from each one to the bottom edge. The palms crowd the left and thin toward the lower right.

Palette

A graded ground running from violet and indigo at the upper left through magenta to cadmium orange and gold at the lower right. The palms are a flat near-black.

Handling

The ground is heavily worked and scraped, with a sweeping circular texture left in the paint that catches the light across the whole surface. The palms are cut in flat over it, their trunks single unwavering lines.

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.