Portfolio > Works on Paper: Intuition

Anima With Axis is a small abstract painting of a kneeling female figure next to a large tree with spreading roots all bounded by wide painted lines in orange, pale-blue, black and yellow painted by Scott McKinley Fina Artist in 2019.
acrylic & enamel paint, crayon on card stock
8.5" x 11"
2019
Scattered Figure With Steps is an abstract gestural painting in red of parts of a figure laying on steps painted black and white and the whole composition is divied vertically, painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2011.
ink, crayon, latex paint on card stock
9" x 12"
2011
Scattered Figure At Diego Flats is an abstract, gestural painting of parts of a figure painted in black laying on a variable gray background with white and red crayon scribble marks painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2012.
acrylic paint, crayon, oil pastel on card stock
8.5" x 11"
2012
Figure Doubling is a small gestural abstraction of parts of two figures in a vertically-divided composition in colors of red, green, balck and white painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2012.
acrylic paint, charcoal, oil pastel on card stock
9" x 12"
2012
Scattered Figure Doubling is a small gestural abstract painting of parts of two figures arranged in a vertically-divided composition and painted in colors of gray and black over a ground of yellows, oranges and yellow-greens by Scott McKinley Fine Artist
acrylic paint, oil pastel on card stock
9" x 12"
2012
Sky Reach is a gestural abstraction of a figure in black lines reaching forward over a varied backgrounfd of blue and gray shapes and marks, the whole composition split vertically by animplicit central vertical axis paintined by Scott Mckinley Fine Artist
acrylic & latex paint, oil pastel, charcoal on card stock
9" x 12"
2012
Chant is a small gestural abstraction with figural elements on the right side in blues, blacks and browns ans repeated horizontal strokes of blues and grays with yellow along the left side of the compoition painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2012.
acrylic & latex paint, charcoal, oil pastel on card stock
9" x 12"
2012
Scattering Figure is a small gestural abstraction of thin figural notations in pale yellow above a field of wider notations in grays, pinks and corals accented with yellow-green painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2012.
acrylic paint, charcoal on card stock
9" x 12"
2012
Figure Reclining Dark Enfolding is a gestural abstraction of a pale pink torso reclining into a surrounding field of dark gray gestures and black accents painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2010.
acrylic paint, oil pastel on card stock
9" x 12"
2010
Softly Chanting He Was Seeing is a gestural abstract painting of two figural elements in strong black and strong gray lines above a field of variable yellow, yellow-orange and green marks painted by Scott Mckinley Fine Artist in 2012.
acrylic & latex paint, ink, oil pastel on card stock
9" x 12"
2012
Light Touch - Hold is a gestural abstract painting of torso and arm figural elements reaching into a variable gray and orange ground with large black gestural marks painted by Scott McKinley Fine Art in 2012.
acrylic paint, oil pastel, crayon on card stock
9" x 12"
2012
Grove Park Alert is an abstract landscape painting with sweeping red and gray horizontal strokes over a variable ground of blue, green and yellow marks in a composition with a vertical axis dividing the field painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2012.
acrylic & latex paint, oil pastel on card stock
9" x 12"
2012
Shrouded Forms is an abstract painting of two black, vaguely figural forms on a variable yellow-ochre, blue and brown background of marks with all shrouded by broad gestural strokes in tan painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2012.
acrylic paint, latex paint, oil pastel on card stock
9" x 12"
2012
Left Arm Torso Sun is a gestural abstraction of the grouped figural elements of a torso, shoulder and arm in browns, grays, cobalt blues, and yellow with fluid gestural lines in charcoal painted by Scott Mckinley Fine Artist in 2012.
acrylic & latex paint, charcoal, oil pastel on card stock
2012
Green Doubling - Shadow Grappling is an abstract figure painting of a gestural standing figure in black grappling with a pink-gray shadow figure within a variable gray, brown, red background all contrasted with two floating oval shaped bright green forms
acrylic & latex paint, charcoal on card stock
9" x 12"
2012
Stark Choice is a gestural abstraction of figural elements in a vertically divided composition painted in strongly contrasting colors of  black, white, pinks and red by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2011.
acrylic & latex paint, oil pastel on card stock
9" x 12"
2011
Touch Sky Reach is a gestural abstraction of a pale-gray linear torso element and a black, linear arm element combined with a deep orange shape, a bright red-pink shape and a deep brown shape in a soft gray ground painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in
acrylic & latex paint, marker on card stock
9" x 12"
2012
Step - Landscape Forms is an abstract landscape painting of vertical steps in gray and black on the right and on the left, a ground of deep grays surrounding three deep-orange forms painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2011.
acrylic & latex paint on card stock
9" x 12"
2011
Head Relic Lamdscape is an abstract painting of a head form in deep reds and deep greens over a background of landscape notations in browns, blues, greens and black charcoal lines painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2012.
acrylic & latex paint, charcoal, oil pastel on card stock
9" x 12"
2012
Triple Hovering is a gestural abstract painting of a vertically divided background space in colors of deep red-brown and yellow-ochre, gray and charcoal black and three ultramarine blue horizontal forms floating along the right side painted by Scott McKin
acrylic & latex paint, oil pastel on card stock
9" x 12"
2012
Blue Pool is a gestural abstract painting of landscape notations in background colors of orange, pink, brownand muted blue with bright -blue circular shape in the lower right quarter painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2012.
acrylic & latex paint on card stock
9" x 12"
2012
Back Of A Head And Halo is a geastural abstraction on the back of a head with a haloo above, thie head painted withi marks of gray and white, the background in colors of blue, violet and black painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2010.
acrylic, oil pastel, marker on card stock
9" x 12"
2010
Cosmic Egg is an gestural abstraction with a large, central egg shape in whites over a ground of deep browns and three smalled egg shape gestures above painted by Scott McKinley in 2011.
inks, oil pastel on card stock
9" x 12"
2011
Blue Form Rising is a gestural abstraction of white elliptical shapes and a cobalt blue shape over a background of deep gray and black oval gestures painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2010.
acrylic paint, ink, graphite, oil pastel on card stock
9" x 12"
2010
Apotropaic Figure is a gestural abstraction of a human figure in gray-white strokes above a ground of deep-gray and muted yellow-ochre gestures painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2010.gestures
acrylic & latex paint, oil pastel, crayon on card stock
9" x 12"
2010
Hard Path is an abstract gestural landscape painting in colors of black, gray, reds, and deep browns painted bty Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2010.
acrylic paint, oil pastel, crayon, india ink, walnut ink on card stock
9'" x 12"
2010
Alchemical Pools is an abstract gestural painting of two oval pool notations in colors of pale gray and pale blue above a ground of gestural marks in grays, blues, and blacks painted by Scott McKinley Fine Artist in 2010.
acrylic & latex paint, oil pastel, crayon on card stock
9" x 12"
2010

These small images have come to me unbidden for decades. They are integral to my process and serve as probes which capture the initial imagery suggested to me through my involvement with other projects. I work intuitively on a few at a time, setting one after another aside as complete when I sense a balance has been reached or an image embodied. Often figure, landscape or archetypal forms emerge. In the context of decades of activity the collected images attest to the fluidity of discovery. Now they stand alone as intimate gestural abstractions in a variety of media on paper.