The Lithotome
8x10 acrylic on Belgian linen panel over wood.
Buy it at: https://www.dailypaintworks.com/Artists/gregory-cross-8940

Found this interesting public domain photograph of a standing stone on a rocky beach. I decided to try a composition technique using color values. Using the "a lot, a little, and a bit" scheme as mostly mid-range values, a lesser amount of dark values, and the monolith's face being the only light value. I had to modify the scene quite a bit to fit my compositional idea, but the painting came out really well.