Inexorable
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| From formation painting |
This unfinished landscape/skyscape is in oil, about 50" by 35." Look carefully and you will see the hint of a bomber formation, dwarfed by the air and clouds. I should explain that strangeness of the scene comes from the fact that the skyscape is invented, without studies or source material. This made it much more difficult of course, but to paint the sky one can paint the air first, and the sense of space and light is more powerful. The aircraft, B-17s of course (hard to see without zooming in here, and apologies for the poor image quality), are the barest dashes of pencil lines, meant only to suggest the bigness of the scene, but the air and light churns around them. I may add more, particularly in the lower right.
It does portray military history, in a sense, but it is meant to suggest something vast and violent without concentrating on anything apparently so, except that the you'll see the source of the dark cloud in the lower left. It is unspecific to date, place or moment. This isn't a new direction in my painting, as such, only a way of using painting to think in terms of space, light, emotion, idea, and scale, related to the installation idea, obviously: a terrible, endless moment.
posted by JAB at 9:41 PM
4 Comments:
very cool!!!
Wonderful. So evocative of the vastness of the sky... Are you sure you weren't a pilot in a past life?
If I had a place to hang it (and the money to buy it) I would...
I would very much like to see the painting.
Much appreciated!
There is a bit of a hilarious Bob Ross element while painting what is - as a technical problem- a landscape:
"Let you mind wander, what if we put a little river here, and maybe a lake, just work it in..just like that. A little cobalt mixed in with your ocher, and in umber cut with some of the cobalt blue, a dark line that reflects the shadow along the water's edge. Maybe someone's fishing in the lake right now, listen to a distant thunder-like sound that never ever seems to stop."
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