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Stop Pointing Fingers gets its colour scheme from a street STOP sign. This painting is the latest addition to my grey tone series where I feature two colours against a black and white composition. At the top of the painting I have balanced the red beach hat against a yellow caramel colour of the sandy beach.

The reason for the stop and look gesture of these ladies was because of a big wave surge in front of the North Narrabeen ocean pool. The lady in the white hat is pointing to a lone surfer who is riding a very large wave towards the beach. And even these locals, who have seen big surf many times before, had to stop and look.

My favourite detail in this composition was painting the shadows cast on the cement walkway. I like how the ladies bent pointed finger casts a faint shadow above the cement join in the pavement. It seems that everything is pushing the viewers eye towards the unseen horizon.

Stop pointing fingers comes with a 42 second video revealing the story of its making.And with this artwork, I continued with the STOP sign theme by making a timber floating frame in white with a red insert to match the colours used in the painting.