Description
Clipper Ship Passing the Lighthouse
Original Watercolor
Format: Horizontal
Image: 5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
Ready to Frame: 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
This item does NOT have a matte board. It is mounted on a backer board ready to frame with a frame that comes with its own matte board.
Clipper Ship: While I started out intending to do an abstract watercolor painting this quickly morphed into something quite realistic. Although it is loose and abstract, it is representative of a painting which was more intentional. Until I added the lighthouse and defined the distant shore, and the clipper ship this lacked definition and pizazz.
This started with a streak of grey (the land), a happy accident of brown and green at the left on a bland looking background. It is how the eye of an artist works – the ability to envision a scene starting with very little.
When I completed this series of watercolor paintings I did a slightly Gestalt approach. I randomly painted 12 backgrounds and then made some blotches of contrasting color and then came back a third time to add enough detail to give the piece some detail. It was an experiment to help me learn to paint more loosely.
There is a beauty in nature that seems to evolve even when, as an artist, I am less intentional and do not start with any clear vision of where the piece of art will go.
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