oil on canvas
54" x 42"
PRIVATE COLLECTION
PRIVATE COLLECTION
I'm a little freaked out to tell you the truth. I'm a little worried now that I've seen Art Weekly on a couple different monitors that some of you are seeing these overexposed. The tablet laptop I started this on had a screen that could tilt, thus altering the brightness of the image with its angle. Now I'm on an HP monitor for a Mac Mini and it doesn't tilt. I cringe when I see the pictures on the blog so bright, but I don't want to change things now because you all have different computers out there and I think I just have to deal. Alright, let's move on.
Spring #10 April Hudson River is done from a colored pencil sketch I did on an Amtrak train from Rochester to Penn Station NYC. The day was hazy and the colors in between the color-suck of winter and the fireworks of spring. I think I made my own fireworks with the vibrancy of the tree line and the blue circles of water (can't quite call them droplets) coming at the viewer. The painting makes use of linear and atmospheric perspective. Dark gray/black dots seem connected like beads on a string or buoys. The water had that range of silver, dark and light blues that went to purple, and white sparkles. The hazy dots at the top gently fall down, shimmering, obscuring the hilltop. You know, I don't think the Hudson River was quite this active, maybe it's me.
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