In the wringer: Oils
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The plumbers were supposed to come this morning, but they stood me up! So I was up very early, not quite well-slept enough, but with time to actually work in the beautiful light in my livingroom. I decided to add some tree details that had been missing from this painting, as well as a few more greens to the lawn.
It was one of those surreal, technicolor first days of spring, the day I took this snapshot of Otis looking up the hill.
(It’s not done yet!)
May 30th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Looks good. I liked this as the watercolour too because Otis just looks so possessed by the view, even though you can only see him from the back.
Got any J. Peterman gouaches to post yet?
May 30th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
No J. Petermans yet! Been busy working on the batch of TNY cartoons, then another job for The Bubble Lounge, and then a re-do, and then this while waiting for the plumber with the rest of the apartment cleared for construction. Now that I know they’re not coming, I can get my stuff out again. Will be working on it this week!
June 2nd, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Hm, somehow the clouds seem a bit weird to me…
June 3rd, 2007 at 2:16 pm
The contrast on this pic is probably a little exaggerated. It was hard to take a picture of that painting—hard, in general, to take pics of my paintings—they always come out grainy and fuzzy, and so I step up the contrast to get them to actually resemble something, anything! Anyway, in person, the clouds in the painting are a little less bleachy white! But they really were that shape! And very bright. It was just one of those days.
June 3rd, 2007 at 2:26 pm
And there were no clouds anywhere else? I mean, besides the shape and this strange whiteness, I also found it quite weird that they were just placed between the trees and the house, sort of in a ‘horror vacui’... (No offense, think you know me enough to know that…)
June 10th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Okay, I’m sending you the photo, you doubter!