ARTHUR BISHOP
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these are great Pic's Colleen
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Wings Over Winecountry, Colleen's place (1 Viewer)
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timwootton
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Terrific.
colleenc
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not so easy keeping up with this site as it used to be...
I'm still working on plein air, now that the first 120 are over I'm settling into working at the coast on the sea...
this one has some brown smudges that are brown pelicans, less than 1/4 inch, and I'm not matty so please don't ask me to fix the bills... will try to paint this later from my photos I love how they ride the wave crests in a line like this.
Bodega headlands ( I found a fairly safe place a little down the cliff to paint so I could get closer to the waves...
6"X8"
oil on oil primed linen.
I'm still working on plein air, now that the first 120 are over I'm settling into working at the coast on the sea...
this one has some brown smudges that are brown pelicans, less than 1/4 inch, and I'm not matty so please don't ask me to fix the bills... will try to paint this later from my photos I love how they ride the wave crests in a line like this.
Bodega headlands ( I found a fairly safe place a little down the cliff to paint so I could get closer to the waves...
6"X8"
oil on oil primed linen.
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colleenc
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Nick, how can you say that? the comp is the weakest part IMO...and you who I so admire for the complex and perfect comps in your pics, I feel this one is stiff and overloaded with stuff, esp for a 6"x8" format....now I don't know if I can trust my own opinion on this...:gh:
JTMB
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Colleen, it looks like you have really found a comfortable and successful niche with the seascapes - they certainly convey the sense of place of the coast. The nocturne is very well executed as well. I still have too much trouble painting during the day to try something by moonlight yet...! :-O Keep the great stuff coming.
nickderry
C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.
So difficult to please!
OK, I'll go back and try to find something wrong with it, just to make you happy. OK, found it! I wonder if you go straight to the pelicans when you look at it, knowing you painted them in and knowing they're there? If the eye goes there first, the comp doesn't work so well, but immediately my eyes follow the rocks to the waves, then roll back onto the rocks and then as the wave goes back out, up to the horizon.
Certainly a piece that I like very, very much.
timwootton
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quote=colleenc;1967707]Nick, how can you say that? the comp is the weakest part IMO...and you who I so admire for the complex and perfect comps in your pics, I feel this one is stiff and overloaded with stuff, esp for a 6"x8" format....now I don't know if I can trust my own opinion on this...:gh:[/quote]
Nope - Nick's right and you're wrong - you don't know what you're talking about girl!!
Now get on with something you CAN do and PAINT some more!!! :-O:-O:-O
Nope - Nick's right and you're wrong - you don't know what you're talking about girl!!
Now get on with something you CAN do and PAINT some more!!! :-O:-O:-O
colleenc
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yesterday....
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colleenc
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happy, is there ever such a thing? maybe for a few min now and then...B
I'd say it's getting there tho...
George Inness (1825-1890) the great Am landscape painter was so bipolar over his work He'd declare "This is the greatest painting I've ever done at night when finished, and the next morning come in wailing total tripe and crap and paint it all out again. Even sometimes taking back a work he sold and "fixing" a few things, the poor buyer would get back some completely different painting!
I'd say it's getting there tho...
George Inness (1825-1890) the great Am landscape painter was so bipolar over his work He'd declare "This is the greatest painting I've ever done at night when finished, and the next morning come in wailing total tripe and crap and paint it all out again. Even sometimes taking back a work he sold and "fixing" a few things, the poor buyer would get back some completely different painting!
phil baber
Clipped Wing
But Colleen,
You are MUCH LOVED!
And all you need to do is breathe through your brushes.
And your heart will blind us all!
Everything you do puts the Sun to shame. Insecurity is a symptom of past unreasonable criticism. IMO.
I adore these seascapes!
I learn from them. And bow to your brilliance!
Fill your wings with heat and wind. And soar over us again!
You are MUCH LOVED!
And all you need to do is breathe through your brushes.
And your heart will blind us all!
Everything you do puts the Sun to shame. Insecurity is a symptom of past unreasonable criticism. IMO.
I adore these seascapes!
I learn from them. And bow to your brilliance!
Fill your wings with heat and wind. And soar over us again!
colleenc
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Dearest poet Phil....thanks :hippy::flyaway:
Ok I admit it at last,.... I'm completely bonkers over plein air. Went out today so sunny and nice where I live, and so socked in fog at Bodega 25 miles away that I couldn't even see the marina next to the road...at the Point the surf was up WAY up, waves of 15-20 feet, and couldn't see the end of the parking lot.
Did I give up, noooooo wayyyy, I got out my gear and went to the cliff edge, tucked myself into a little cranny near the edge but safe( I think anyway) and WOW the surf sounded like avalanches So below you will see my best effort at an impossible painting, the first and third photo are about what I could see....I had to up the contrast so you could see I did get that huge wave, and some of the rest...even the hardy cormorants seemed to be watching the show along with me, It really was peasoup fog and I put in a bit more detail than I could see; been there enough to push it...also including some photos 1-4 of the wave burying the rock that stands about 30' high, and the post after this one will show a view of my painting "nest", and my blue bankie that I sit on and wrap around me to keep warm, I painted on my lap.
oil on canva paper 6x9
Ok I admit it at last,.... I'm completely bonkers over plein air. Went out today so sunny and nice where I live, and so socked in fog at Bodega 25 miles away that I couldn't even see the marina next to the road...at the Point the surf was up WAY up, waves of 15-20 feet, and couldn't see the end of the parking lot.
Did I give up, noooooo wayyyy, I got out my gear and went to the cliff edge, tucked myself into a little cranny near the edge but safe( I think anyway) and WOW the surf sounded like avalanches So below you will see my best effort at an impossible painting, the first and third photo are about what I could see....I had to up the contrast so you could see I did get that huge wave, and some of the rest...even the hardy cormorants seemed to be watching the show along with me, It really was peasoup fog and I put in a bit more detail than I could see; been there enough to push it...also including some photos 1-4 of the wave burying the rock that stands about 30' high, and the post after this one will show a view of my painting "nest", and my blue bankie that I sit on and wrap around me to keep warm, I painted on my lap.
oil on canva paper 6x9
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colleenc
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my painting nest
Here is the little cranny where I painted, it's sheltered from the wind a little, and looks down on the resting rock of the cormorants, and gulls, also where some nest in the spring...it's about 10' from the edge on one side, and if I tripped I would not fall into the sea but have room in the gully to catch my balance...I think about things like that because I'm a bit afraid of heights.
I boosted it in PS as it was so dark by then the camera couldn't see.
Here is the little cranny where I painted, it's sheltered from the wind a little, and looks down on the resting rock of the cormorants, and gulls, also where some nest in the spring...it's about 10' from the edge on one side, and if I tripped I would not fall into the sea but have room in the gully to catch my balance...I think about things like that because I'm a bit afraid of heights.
I boosted it in PS as it was so dark by then the camera couldn't see.
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Woody
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These are just gorgeous! Light through the water and crashing waves in the fog. I think you could paint the sea endlessly from one spot and never see the same painting twice. I love these seascapes Colleen and I reckon you should take all 120, (or however many it is now), frame them and arrange an exhibition close to the spot where you're painting. You'ld sell out I reckon.
Keep painting them and showing us. Don't forget that you are a damn fine painter of birds too!
Mike
Keep painting them and showing us. Don't forget that you are a damn fine painter of birds too!
Mike
timwootton
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. . . correct . . .
