Carport
Here is a carport in my little town of Sierra Madre one of the few spots left that hasn't be re- developed. Give them time. ;-)
I was trying to see how far I could push the color. Oil on wood 16x 24. I'm not totally happy with the shadow on the right forground. I think all the texture keeps it from working as well as it should.
posted by william wray at 1:11 AM
38 Comments:
Either this is a beautiful painting or that is the most amazing carport I've ever seen. And I've seen some amazing carports, I've been to Kansas City.
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Whoops! Horrible mis-spelling error!
I meant to say: This IS frigg'n nice and I dig orange. Luckily only you, me and Blogger will ever know the terrible error I made just moments ago.
I'm worn out now...
This is Beautiful Bill!
There something about that roof that makes me think of Van Gogh's Cafe At Arles. maybe it's just the bright color..
Very nice sir!
That shadow does flatten things out, but it still looks good. Perhaps you will become hooked on the effect, and go all cubist on us.
Brave colours! You wouldn't see these in Camden Town.
Lovely. I think I agree about that shadow. It seems the bottom 1/6 of the painting doesn't quite hold. Otherwise I think it is golden.
these are neat, but you know.. youre a master at awesome cartoon/golden book style paintings. will you ever go back??
i hope you do. the paintings you did on R&S were beautiful. keep paintin
Dang, you REALLY did a nice job on this one, those cars are a nice touch. This is one of those views that I wouldn't have ever chosen, but you really pulled it off tremendously. Nice color too, that sky color works well with the orange carport.
Wow Bill, Great paintings.. loved your work on R&S.. You still in the animation industry or just painting?
Hey Erich,
Maybe I'll change the name to the Amazing Carport.
Get better Dan. Have a nap.
Hey J.
Yeah old VG like ornageand blue. Me too.
Yea Chris the perspective is of in real life is off to it's so old and warped. But to be honest I don't worry about that stuff so much when I'm going expressionistic. It a trade off for painting enerrgy.
Hey Glam, the simplicty of the shadow is starting to grow on me. It's makes a nice contrast to the rest of the jutting perspective.
Hey UM,
Yeah everthing in The UK is in black and white right?
Jessie, that's becasue it a downward slope and everthing slides off.
Ryan, I go back once and awhile... when I get paid ! ;-) Just did some special project suff for DC comics that was in a Mary Blair style. and looks like I will be doing some more.
Thanks for saving these views for me. I love 'em.
Hey Ryan, A little of both. It ebbs and flows. I'm doing more of what I want to do that's for sure.
ahah! It’s the orange on Blue.. That’s what made me think of VG..
-A mystery solved!
Hey Bill Wray
"Cool painting!" I have a question for ya. What was the name of that outer space crab cartoon you made? I really loved that cartoon but I only saw it once.
Jesse
MAN, Bill you're rocking the free world these days.
Whew. Fantastic painting. Scorcher. Very naturalistic but great abstract aspects too.
J O. King Crab-- the toy is for sale on on my old websight. Bigblownbaby.com
thanks Jamar, great you stopped by.
Clive,
Thanks, I worked hard on the shapes and eye directing.
Wow! I love the strong colour. The orange really packs a punch. The shadow looks fine to me, it doesn't look out of place.
Lesley-- Yhea I'm learning to live with it... honeing my rational... ;-)
Impressive! Love your use of colors and awesome BG's in your blog! Great
Hey Bill
Did you have anything to do with the cartoon short "Buy One Get One Free"?
thanks Go- You have a round cartton head.
Sorry Jessie no.
I love the color and the jutting roof on the carport, as well as the cars and the building and sky. I think the cement is trying to hard to be the star of the show. It might be interesting to try a crop in Photoshop to reduce some of that area. If you were to ever do another version, I might include more building and sky and less cement...it seems worth perfecting...it's a great piece!
Oh my goodness! Is this the alley behind E. Montecito off of Mountain Trail? I live in a house across from these apartments! My friend forwarded this to me and I about died! Love the painting, by the way!
alicia-- yes it is I've done two paintings there.
My house is the one with the old trailer from the 1950's in the driveway- you should paint that! Ha ha ha!
I'm surprised I haven't.
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