All That's Left
oil on board 12x16
This sign is all that's left of what was apparently a restaurant called Grandview Gardens in Los Angeles's Chinatown. There is now an empty lot behind the sign with lettering identifying the spot as Chinatownland.
I searched in vain for a picture of the original building, but have so far come up empty handed. I wasn't satisfied with the original lighting on this piece so I went back and did some glazing and re- stated paint into it. Now I like the lighting, but find the paint a tad overworked in places. They can't all make you totally happy.
I have a old painting in a new book... info:
: Plein Air New Mexico; Volume One of the Jack Richeson Fine Art Series. The editor of a new book Maggie Price. The book was released in the fall of 2006, and retails for $49.95 plus $4.95 shipping and handling. For more information, see www.richesonart.com; Phone orders: 800-233-2404, fax: 800-233-2545.
posted by william wray at 12:27 PM
24 Comments:
I like how your lighting turned out.
I love those forks at the tops of the post.
"All That's Left" made me totally happy. I think I see the "overworked" section, around the square sign. I love it anyway.
the painting is fine;
well, maybee a tad overworked just below the sign: have You ever cut an old cotton rag to fit just the spot and let it soak in turpentine overnight? than it can usually be scraped out, dried and rebuild.
I did even see the bottom image--it must not have loaded before I went to comments. I love the delapidated shed in the foreground!
Overworked? I don't see it.
I just returned from BikeWeek in Florida and the sun was blinding at times. Your treatment of the sun is right on the money.
I almost didn't do this one, it didn't seem to have"enough"to it.
Hey Glam--Funny I though it was the palm tree. :-) Just goes to show you...
Alicja: Very intresting I've never tired that, thanks for the tip.
BG -- Yeah that at laest a year old done super fast to avoid chasing the light. I need to get back to that kind of confident roughness...
Cara, thanks for the thumbs up, but it's there a bit for me, not a disaster, but not my personal best.
I think everything depends on what you are trying to achieve. I would be more than happy to deal with a against the light situation so well. Sometimes the pictures click into place and others are more strained but the viewer has his own reactions. It is like in a concert or an opera, the people don´t get it when they play a wrong note, unless the conductor doesn´t shrug.
Another good one. Great mood and blighty to boot.
Hey Will.. color scheme on both pieces are intriguing.. and set the stage. Nice teal - work on the wood in the crane piece.. cool triad choice and only a real man would use pink so freely. The chinese restaurant piece is fantastic and the lighting dramatic... matter of fact several scenarios are flashing across my mind now... flashing flashing..
Stefan, you put it well. Often it's a mystery why I like a certain painting and everyone else doesn't or the reverse.
C.O. I don't know what blighty means , but I like the sound of it.
WK-- I think I crashed you brains harddrive. Excellent.
Nice stuff.
I think this painting looks great, I really loke the way the sky looks.
Thats like the way the sky looks
Remember, you are the Painter of Blight. Sez so in your header... Hence "blighty".
Do you like the Ashcan School? The original painters of blight.. I have been studying them lately. Quite interesting.
thanks Bob! fix your link so we can all go to your blog.
Wodjo! I love you work, thanks for coming by.
I love the pitchfork one. It looks like the gateway to some kinda hell I wanna visit some day.
Grump-- You want to go to Chinese food Hell? I bet you can find that Hell just a few blocks away...
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