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Tue, May. 20th, 2008, 11:01 am
pleinairs
a few pleinairs from last summer that i've never bothered posting. those of you who've been to the artwalk have probably seen them. 
"blue heron on alki beach"
acrylic on canvas, 2007
but i caught a pretty sunset... 
 sunset on alki beach
Originally uploaded by polyrealism.gallery: http://polyrealism.com/deck/deck.shtml copyright polyrealism.com © 2007 for some reason, many asked me how do i come up with this, and with all that other shit i paint... here's an example. this piece is painted with acrylics on a small linen canvas, au plainair, on alki beach. acrylics because it dries fast enough so i can do a few layers au plainair, linen because it has perfect structure for dry-brushing the shadows. we got there around 4, but i knew that the color that was haunting me earlier will be precisely what i need around 7. i did quick underpainting with basic colors - no sketching, no measuring, it had to be loose and impressionistic - correlated the color of sky and water from what it was to what it will be during the sunset - decades of painting will do that to ya - and mixed the color of the shadow and applied it to the outline of the city. then i could sit, smoke and kick back. no beer, bear makes you lose precision. after two cigarettes, the exact color that i needed hit the walls, i quickly mixed it while it was there, and in sort of trance painted all the highlights over shadows that dried up by that moment. then, just as i finished, a cloud covered part of the sun and changed the colors, so i had to add a reddish streak as it was setting on the tops of the buildings. then i signed it and made myself stop correcting it. to quote the greatest russian poet pushkin: "if only you knew from what kind of garbagethe poetry is born!"
Wed, Jan. 18th, 2006, 02:09 pm
autumn
Wed, Jan. 18th, 2006, 02:08 pm
water
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