The Storm
"The Storm"
Oil on Canvas
76 x 61cm
Painted with pallet knife
in my eyes this is probably my best painting so far - along with "Tosca". Technique wise, I made the right choice and it paid off. I used painting knifes of different shapes and sizes to slap on the thick, undiluted oil paint and create the apprropriate textures. This painting is probably the first one I've done that has any kind of meaning to it. It's supposed to remind us of power and domination of nature as a whole next to the small helpless human race, which often gets too big for its boots. By putting the horizon line low in the picture I allowed the violent sky to dominate. I ended up just painting the sky from my imagination - because all else had failed - and I tried to make it look like it was going to swallow up the tiny boat. This also directs your eye to the focal point, which is the boat. My next challange is to try and get this painting back - from Mrs Haig...
posted by Dave at 8:55 AM
6 Comments:
uuuhhhhhh, if you could record yourself reading that and send it to me i might listen to it
lol, im sure its all very good but i find it hard to read long passages
lol. I don't really expect you guys to find it interesting.
It's hard to know what artistc direction to go in when you're deciding to be an artist. All I was doing was recording some thoughts - I might change my mind tomorrow. Maybe I shouldn't try and decide what direction to go in so early, maybe I shouldn't decide at all.
I did go to the trouble of reading it all, and it was very interesting, and i agree with what ur saying....Plus "the Storm" looks awesome!
Still waiting on that review dave!
lol, I'll get round to it
"Maybe I shouldn't try and decide what direction to go in so early, maybe I shouldn't decide at all"... yes let the art decide for you, just go with it..
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