Beach Day
16x24 oil on wood.
Here is another beach themed " figure in the landscape" from a reference photo take by my friend Joao. Same Michigan Beach as the last one. I’m getting more and more interested in the figure in my work, my confidence building with this one. I'm more comfortable drawing extreme proportions than normal, so the huge mother and tiny child is a compelling contrast for me.
posted by william wray at 1:07 PM
37 Comments:
Man! You do great on the figure painting. It also evokes a smile. Love all the broken color.
Hahaha, this one made me laugh. It has some cartoonish appeal. A great painting above all.
I think I might not go to the beach in Michigan.
These paintings are good stuff though.
Very nice mood, well achieved. I'm curious about that pink skin hue.
I can't help thinking of that R & S episode at the beach. :-D
Large beach people have become a favorite subject of mine. This one is terrific with the contrast between mother and child.
She's baaaack!
LOL! What else can I say. Your brushwork is so good and it is interesting to see how you have established your focal point by lowering all the contrasts elsewhere.
The full-sized image is awe-inspiring...thanks for scanning or photographing them so big!
It was only in the full-sized image that I could really appreciate the beautiful figure work on that kid at the shore...beautiful!
I like that she's doing something with her hands. Probably holding a snack. And the shadow on the little boy's back, showing that it curves in, nice.
I have a question, do you teach any plein air workshops? I'd sure love to attend.
Hi Bill,
So glad to have heard about you through a blog friend.
Your paintings show great wit, knowledge of light and color and you draw very well - great work. By the way, I would not even mention Kinkade in my blogspot if I were you. He is nothing but the "painter of bad taste".
Love what you do and will come back in the future!
Ilse
Enjoy the honesty in your protrayal of subjects and environments. r.
Great job!!! I really like this.
sandy
Great, I like these new figure/landscape-pieces!
This is really interesting, all the colors I see in the big gal. Do you use a palette knife or is this just brush work? Barb
Thanks Dean H , Idle, Jessie,
fabian,
No relation as far as I know!
Vander and David,
2 Differant gals... can't you imagine two at the beach on the same day? Yes there will be more.
Stefan! yes that's exactly what I did... also for atmosphere.
thanks Shem I'll keep it big for you!
I totally agree, the contrast between mother and child hit me right away at first viewing.
Also, good job picking human subjects others wouldn't normally pick.
A skillful avoidance of tangents on the horizon.. Meaty ham bone arm.. digg'n it!
Wow and wow again. These figure + landscape ones are really fun!
This is what we see in life - and I applaud you. It is an incredible painting William.
your paintings never disappoint!
love the color temperature and texture! cheers!
This one is my favorite.:o)
I love this. The little boy in the background is really great. The naturalness of his posture is perfect.
Geeez that's beautiful!!
these are soooo cool !!!!! I love your brush strokes and color pallette.
silviana. I'm sure she had a big drink of soda... what else? ;-)
PS Sil, I only do demos for clubs near by at this point, keep an eye out and I'll announce one for May 18th soon.
Ilse, the Kinkade reference is meant to be ironic. ;-) the sad thing is I'm told he was a good well trained artist who made a cynical choice to be a cake frosting covered art whore.
Rahina, Sandy and thnor thanks for dropping by.
Barb 98% brush, a tiny bit of knife for detail.
BG thank my Photo guy in this case Joao.
thanks Wk and Pumml!
Karin, I just went to your blog and see why you like this subject! ;-)
Nice and fleshy. Wonderful works.
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