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JM Artist

Posts:227

02/10/2008 6:46 PM	Alert
A friend of mine does these wounderful paintings of a creek where he lives in Mystic. When I went to visit him I photograph his creek so I could do my interpatation of it...as luck would have it I lost the role of film. Any way I remember commenting to him of a place where I live that sort of look's like what he paints, so off I went with sketch pad and camera. I might do a series of these eventually at different times of day under different lighting conditions. Un-like the place my freind goes to (he drive and parks there), this is a little more difficult to get to and requires some hitching. Thompson Creek 8" X 10

JM Artist http://hometown.aol.com/jmansuetoartist/Home.html

River

Posts:360

02/10/2008 9:53 PM	Alert
Very nice...get the feeling though I'm sure I'm not seeing it all that this is full of detail.

JM Artist

Posts:227

02/11/2008 9:51 PM	Alert
There's really not much detail to this, it is very dark. I was more interested in the way the water reflected the sky and how it had so much more color in it then one might imagine. It's late summer/early fall, the sun was almost at the top of the tree line to the left, the lighting at that late time of day often gives water the surreal look of almost glowing.

JM Artist http://hometown.aol.com/jmansuetoartist/Home.html

Rosie

Posts:286

02/12/2008 6:40 AM	Alert
I could sware the water is moving. Rosie

Use the pointy end............

Cagg
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02/12/2008 8:23 AM	Alert
Lovely painting. Makes me homesick. I'm an ex-Long Islander, in particular the extreme eastern end, which is a short hop from Mystic, as the seagull flies. As a matter of fact, one of my recent paintings is of a seagull. All you need is a bag of potato chips and you'll be swamped with gulls. (Great way to diet and get free models at the same time.) There's an ever- changing magical quality to water, especially the creeks that feed into the bay. I hope you continue this kind of landscape, even the same view at different times of the day, and season. If you're afraid of repeating yourself, think of Monet and his 32 versions of the same haystack. Please do more!!

Cleadus
Posts:21

02/12/2008 6:28 PM	Alert
This is beautiful in it's simplicity. The sky and water are the painting in my opinion.

Realist2
Posts:32

02/14/2008 9:36 AM	Alert
Again ver y nice! Appealing composition and, that feeling is there, as in all of your work.

Kim
Posts:368

02/14/2008 1:30 PM	Alert
Makes me want to be there. Lovely.

one who sees

Posts:508

02/15/2008 11:46 AM	Alert
this reminds me of the scene that i hang out of the truck window trying to get photos of as my husband is barreling down the hwy!....it can be viewed from rt 3n...so i can totally understand your connection with this scene...as well as feel it....beautifully handled!

~I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it~ Vincent Van Gogh www.bettyannlemist.com

JM Artist

Posts:227

02/23/2008 6:35 PM	Alert
Betty, I decided a long time ago that when I see scenes like this, I stop and photograph it right then and there because if it catches my eye then that is the moment in time I want. The lighting, the colors... everything. This way I'll always have that one image of what I first saw. So I always try to at least have my digital camera with me when I'm going places I rarely go to. Ideally I try to at least go back and do a sketch of it, but that's not always possible if your on vacation. Now I know my friend Sharon is going to see this next month at our show together and she's going to pester me about going there for a plein air session together....good thing I bought that french easle last summer!

JM Artist http://hometown.aol.com/jmansuetoartist/Home.html

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