This is not an ego piece – I’ve been asked why my blog captions “Art and Travel”, but there’s so little art on this blog – so as an effort to correct that, here’s five or six pieces I’ve recently completed and one that is in-progress.
“Reflection of Fanny” An old work trawler converted, and not all that well, to a pleasure craft, moored in a creek just off the ICW near Southport, NC. This piece is 16X20″, and was created with Acrylic paint and ink on wooden stretched canvas. Currently available to own from a gallery in Monroe, NC
“Shoreline” 20X16, acylic on wooden stretched canvas – available for purchase. A piece from a photo taken on the bank of Tampa Bay, near the Town and Country area.
“Southern Storm”….20×16 Acrylic paint and ink on wooden stretched canvas. Painted from a photo taken during a spring storm near Ft. Caswell, Oak Island, NC. There are so few rocks in the area and these were likely dumped at their location during some construction project. Piece is available to own.
“Sailboat Reflections” 18X24, acrylic paint and ink on wooden stretched canvas. Painted from a photo taken of an unremarkable sailboat tied in South Harbor Marina, Oak Island, NC. This is a study for a larger piece underway and is available to own.
“Water’s Edge 2” 16X20, acrylic on wooden stretched canvas….this is not a great photo of the piece, but it’s what I have..and as we all know, WHAT YOU HAVE IS WHAT YOU GOT. Painted from a photo take three feet away from the first “Water’s Edge” and the two pieces are meant to be complimentary without forming a diptych. It’s also available for purchase.
And finally……a piece being painted from a work of Raymond Gizzi, an excellent French impressionistic painter, and still underway – a bit of departure for me, basing on another’s work, but Gizzi’s portrayal of a farmhouse in Provence puts me in mind of views in Ybor City, Florida. I’ve recently taken a number of reference photos for future pieces there, primarily due to, just as in Key West, the chickens run free and prominently (no chickens in this piece, however. This piece measures approximately 30″ X 18″ and is painted with acrylic paint and ink on some kind of construction board I had laying around in the pottery wheel studio. Also, I don’t like the bicycle in Gizzi’s piece, so that’s not going to happen….maybe some chickens would be the thing………..
Playing with gross shadows underway here, to be way toned down. I’ll make some effort to correct the perspective of the windows and wash out the shadow areas, but this is an impressionistic piece of an impressionistic piece….(just amusing myself here!)
…and voila! (which is French for – …..”and then I found out”, painting something to capture the spirit of another artist’s work is taxing – one doesn’t want unkind comparisons, even if it is my fault..<s>.
Provence Farmhouse by Raymond Gizzi
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