45-minutes and this 6x8 oil was done! Your response to kyknoord@outlook.com please folks!
Vancouver Island.
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45-minutes and this 6x8 oil was done! Your response to kyknoord@outlook.com please folks!
Vancouver Island.
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It's a small painting but it can be seen in a larger form if you click on the image.
"The Road to Costco" oil by Ron Wilson.
My artist buddy Mike Leavy lent me the new Seago book by James Russell. Edward Seago liked to paint "on the spot" as he called it. Not only that, he could paint from memory too. Sometimes he made very brief sketches.
I followed this Seago method - while Colleen was driving I memorized a bend in the road to Costco and made a brief sketch at home:
Then without the scene in front of me and no photo reference I painted this oil (much like Seago would have done in the 6o's and 7o's). Fun. It gives the artist a lot of freedom to create and express - and we got some shopping in at the two-hundred dollar store too!Press the images for bigger views.
I was happy with the brush work and the colours even though the likeness turned out a wee bit cartoonish for my taste. Often a painting paints itself - I knew it was turning out like this but I didn't seem to have much control - just shows that a lot of painting gets done using the hidden recesses of the brain. It's not a bad painting, it's brushy and the paint is applied like colour tiles --- I'm sort of pleased with it.