Original Oil Painting on Canvas by Geoffrey C. Smith.
36" W x 48" H
 
Everglades Single Cormorant portrays a lone cormorant emerging from a sea of color, its sleek black neck and sharp beak cutting upward through rippling reflections. The bird is centered, still, and unmistakably alert, while the surrounding water pulses with layers of pinks, purples, oranges, and blues.
 
In the palette knife oil painting, Geoffrey C. Smith lets color and texture take the lead. The scene isn't painted as it looks - it's painted as it feels. Light scatters across the surface like memory, and the cormorant becomes a quiet anchor in an otherwise shifting world. It's a tribute to solitude, balance, and the beauty that lives in both motion and stillness.