Flying By — Blue moves through saturated blue and teal, weathered cream, and flashes of coral and ochre. Open areas meet dense, layered passages, while dark linear marks pull the eye across the surface. Atmospheric at first glance, the painting rewards closer looking.
About the Work
Dark lines cross soft passages, and buried marks appear, disappear, and return. The painting holds together as a broad atmosphere from a distance, then opens into smaller discoveries up close.
Complex Harmony
Shirley calls this complex harmony: difference, history, interruption, and beauty coexisting without becoming the same. Layers of color, marks, and revision leave some passages visible and partially bury others; what survives remains part of the story.
Edition & Sizes
An open fine art canvas edition of Shirley Bales’s original artwork, offered in artist-reviewed compositions.
- Square: 20 × 20, 24 × 24, 30 × 30, 36 × 36, 40 × 40 in
- Landscape: 24 × 20, 36 × 30, 48 × 40 in
Square and landscape formats have distinct, artist-reviewed crops. Select a size to see its composition.
Color
Every effort is made to represent the artwork accurately. Screens, ambient light, wall color, and time of day can make the finished canvas appear slightly different.
Made to Order & Shipping
Each canvas is printed and prepared to order in Shirley’s Colorado studio. Current production time is 2–3 business days before shipment.
The canvas ships rolled and unstretched, carefully protected and with tracking. Shipping rates and carrier options depend on size and destination.
About Shirley Bales
Shirley Bales is a Colorado artist and founder of Eco Forma Clay Co. Her practice spans plein-air and representational painting, abstract studio work, and material exploration, returning throughout to color, surface, layered process, and the traces left by revision.
There is beauty in what we choose to keep.
