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Realistic Art for Impact
Realistic art
allows me to create a sense of being involved it the art in my paintings. The
crisp imagery and small bits of detail add the impression to
observers that these are real places, places of light, shadow and
warmth that invite the viewer to participate.
People frequently
ask me where these places are at, especially the seascape paintings,
as sand dunes and beaches can have a universal feel. They want to
know if I have captured some place that they have been. However, the
final painting is an imaginary creation. These realistic
seascape paintings of dunes and
beaches are taken mostly from a composite of photos I've taken over
my years of travel, from the Texas coast to the great dunes of
Western Michigan. The old buildings and porches are borrowed form
other photos and drawings, mostly my own, but anything that catches
my imagination will work. In some, the foregrounds are complex
interiors with hints of something else going on in the room.
In others you see mostly the seascape painting itself with just a
suggestion of the human hand. Either way, the feeling that you
could walk right into the finished piece is powerful. This is why I
love egg tempera paint, because it's ability to capture detail
enhances the illusions I create. The crisp clarity of the
paint is perfect for the three dimensional feelings I strive for,
and it also captures the delicate highlights that add greatly to the
warm light I try to capture in each piece.
I'm particularly
drawn to older buildings and interiors, wooden frameworks that have
been worn by time, and impart a unique character to my realistic
art, whether of seascapes, landscapes or river and lake scenes from
the Midwest. My realistic paintings, (in this case, the
seascape paintings ) are invitations to be there. Anything I
can add to the illusion of actual places and complete the invitation
is what I look for when selecting the subjects I choose to paint.
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