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Row Your Boat! ·
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Acrylic |
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Canvas |
| Year: |
2009 |
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Acrylic Painting of the sea shore in Wattle Point (Victoria, Australia) during summer, mounted on framed board painted black with a hint of the colour in the boats and foliage over painted for texture. The frame is black and is addition to the size of the work. |
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This painting was also created after the recent successful reception of and requests for similar works to my recent acrylics painting efforts. The vivid colours have been very well received. |
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After preliminary sketches I came up with this layout taken from a few different photos. These were all taken on a holiday at Wattle Point a couple of years ago. |
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The boats, again, are the major centre of interest in this work, I changed the colours from plain white to very bright warm colours to come up with something that I hope really pops. The nice thing that I am discovering about acrylics, apart from them drying so fast, is the vibrant colours they have. |
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Oil painting is my "first love", nothing else handles like it, I love the way it moves on the canvas, and how it I can blend it and create light, shade and texture with it. I am finding however, as I did with pastels, that having an arsenal of mediums to use is very liberating. It allows the work to tell me how it wants to be done, how I can present the subject the best way I know how. It also makes my life as an artist much more interesting. |
| Dimensions: |
108 cm (width) × 47 cm (height) |
| Ownership: |
Private collector |
| Credit: |
Original photography by Janice Mills |
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