KimGatesman/ThirdSwitchStudios

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Lifelong creative kid. Oil Painting, Printmaking, Gardening, Woodworking, Music, and other Tinkerings. KimGatesman.com ThirdSwitchStudios.com No AI, no NFT.

A zoomed in loo at rocks in a shallow pool of water. Colorful, late in the date warmth with cool shadows. Painterly when you get up close. Lots of little rocks and pebbles.
Kim crouched atop her stool and tabletop to get eye-level with a section of the painting that is too high up to see properly from the floor. She’s wearing a yellow ball cap, a gray tshirt that is ripped at the armpit, and cropped, green running pants. She’s barefoot for better grip to not slip fall. She’s working on her painting, Rocky Beach 35: Bittersweet. Which is a Rocky out cropping at East beach in Westport, MA. Moody sky full of dark clouds.
A close up of beach rocks at low tide. The shapes and brushwork are painterly and simplified. Very straightforward play between cool and warm colors to differentiate the light and shadows.
Color oil painting of a rocky beach. Piles of rocks, at low tide, as a transitional space between the sand and the water. Moody, as the clouds are dark, and the water has brought out the darker colors of the rocks.
Moody ominous landscape oil painting. Location East Beach, Westport, MA. Faces east, so the shadow of the viewer is cast upon the edge of the water. The horizon is another beach off in the distance. Seemingly calm waters compressed between the rocks and clouds.
Close up of the two 1/4” tall, long haired toddlers playing on the rocks. One with blonde hair, the other with brown. Two little boys in their swimming trunks.
Horizontal oil painting of a rocky shoreline, on a very foggy day. There is barely a horizon, merely a shadowy transition from white to gray two-thirds the way down from the top. The tide is receding so lots of smaller rocks dotted around the foreground. Low level color, nearly monotone.
Single boulder rising above the water that is crashing against the shore. Orange tones of the pyramid-shaped rock, which has a beautiful high tide line marked by blue, green, black, and rust colors. Low horizon, overcast sky removes any hint of sky color…just a warm white fog.
Oil painting with soft blue, purple, and pink tones. A central line of rocks moving horizontally across the middle of the composition. There is a shift in the color of the rocks from dark to light gray as you go from left to right. A wide cinematic aspect ratio was used for this piece, Rocky Beach 34.
Color oil painting with a central focus on a large boulder among smaller rocks. Low tide, hazy, blue green grays.
A black and white graphite pencil drawing. Centered in the page is a single, dried chrysanthemum flower whose petals retracted into beautiful crumpled forms. Invokes a dancer of sorts with wild, yet quiet movements.
Color oil painting of twilight at Elephant Rock Beach in Westport, MA. Facing east, the mouth of the Westport River off in the distance. Low tide. October twentieth.
Color oil painting. Point of view from someone standing in the shallows, looking back toward the beach. It is low tide so lots of rocks shown just beneath the water. Lots of small rocks, revealed by the receding tide, surround a grouping of two boulders and other larger rocks. Painterly, yet still quite realistic.
Front cover of “Electrostatics: The Mark-making Experiments”, Volume 1, by Kim Gatesman. Vertical, half-letter sized book. Black and white with a single lightening bolt looking image in the cover.
Wide view of a very busy painting studio space. A panel is clamped to a cross bar at the top, as it sits in a lower shelf. Paint tubes and palette sit beneath the painting. Other paintings, and accessories on tables to either side.
Black and while image. A single electrostatic shock, which looks like a lightning bolt with a fringe around it.
A black and white abstract image created with static electricity. There are lines that are trails of circles. And there are larger shapes with frilly borders, which upon closer inspection look like little lightening bolts.
Kim Gatesman / Third Switch Press logo, which is a series of three switch symbols (as used in schematics) stacked vertically. The top two symbols are gray, and the bottom symbol is black. The switch symbol (reading left to right) is a dash connected to a dot at one end. That dot has an upward angled dash on the other side. There is a space, then another dot, attached to a dash.
Black and white image. The imprint of a hand with seemingly swirling abstract shape around the tip of the second and middle fingers. It is an electrostatic spark.
Kim in front of an open door to a wood fired kiln. She positions herself to quickly toss in logs because at this point in the night it’s north of 2000 degrees F.
A black and white abstract image, somewhat reminiscent of flowers, but its electricity.