Sun Shattered (2026) Original Acrylic Painting by Scott Olmstead

• The Palette: The piece is dominated by an intense, warm color field of fire-engine red, golden amber, sunflower yellow, and electric orange. What brings sudden friction and life to the palette are the surprising accents of hot magenta pink and chartreuse green, which pull the eye across the canvas.
• Composition & Depth: The vertical layout is packed with overlapping rectangular slabs, triangles, and columns. By angling these hard-edged bars diagonally and intersecting them, you have created a powerful illusion of three-dimensional depth. The shapes resemble an isometric architectural cluster or a dense, neon city skyline viewed from an angle.
• Technique: The boundaries between colors are incredibly clean, which aligns perfectly with the hard-edge painting tradition. There is a lovely, smooth consistency to the fields of color, giving the overall composition a highly graphic, modern, and structured presence.

Materials used:

acrylic on Canvas

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 81.28 x 137.16 x 3.81cm
• Signed on the front
• Style: Geometric
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative