Tempest Tossed (2017) is a 48×48 inch painting by James Austin Murray. By using just Ivory black oil paint on canvas and a large, handmade, squeegee-like brush tool, he creates huge swirling marks. Echoing the practice of Gerhard Richter and James Nares, his work is an exploration in process, light and material. He also makes prints with this surface, changing movements on the canvas and recording the relief onto linen. In terms of making this in a smaller scale, I would choose a 4×4 inch or smaller piece of MDF/wood/canvas and use a small amount of oil paint. Black definitely works the best as it absorbs and reflects the most amount of light. I could either make myself my own paintbrush/tool with tiny bits of twig tied together (or use a toothbrush) to create marks in the paint. I would then take a piece of canvas linen to create the same relief prints. An advantage of this descaling would be that the item being painted is a lot more tangible and portable, so more repetitions can be made on that linen surface or any other surface for that matter. More choices. On the other hand, the issue with it being so small is the fact that it lacks the grandeur that Murray’s pieces exude. There is far less material used, therefore cheap to execute. A smaller scale also comes with a more experimental action than that of Murray’s huge, laborious movements/process.