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Lung Tom
Posts:225

09/03/2008 10:35 PM	Alert
This afternoon I put a watercolor block in a plastic bag --- Got on my trusty Honda scooter and rode to the John Deere Trackter Co. on the outskirts of Walla Walla. This is the result.

Lung Tom

Lung Tom
Posts:225

09/03/2008 10:50 PM	Alert
Tom, you may be an old man (87) having painted watercolors for over 40 years. But as you aged so have your paintings lost their appeal. Note everyone of your paintings has no comments. You're all done man. But, don't give up.

Lung Tom

Lung Tom
Posts:225

09/03/2008 11:01 PM	Alert
The problem is --- it is obvius you don't paint from photographs like the rest of us.

Lung Tom

vikingwife

Posts:882

09/04/2008 7:55 AM	Alert
I like that there is a lot of detail in this one. This painting reminds me of some of the illustrations in my childrens' storybooks. Photographs have their good and bad points. I work MUCH slower when I work from photographs....and I can't tell you how many times I have lost interest in a project and abandoned it altogether because it took too much time. I love to see work from those who paint plein air. Wish I had the time to get out and do that. And don't feel bad.....I posted a couple of drawings and no one has commented on mine yet either But life goes on and we still create!! Jess

Lung Tom
Posts:225

09/04/2008 3:09 PM	Alert
Thank you Vikingwife. Unless a person lives near wheat fields they have no idea of the size of these tracters. I'm standing by the wheel of the one I painted.

Lung Tom

Kassie

Posts:339

09/04/2008 10:04 PM	Alert
Hi Tom, Your painting has a lot of spontiniety (ops sp). It was interesting seeing how big these tractors are. Kassie

jimmy4u

Posts:82

09/04/2008 11:00 PM	Alert
Don't listen to your alter ego's Tom. You just keep on keepin on.

All the best, Jim

Lung Tom
Posts:225

09/05/2008 12:40 PM	Alert
Thank you Kassie and jimmy4u, When I paint I try to do it fast showing lots of dynamic motion. I picked that up after WWII when I went into Japan with the occupation forces. While there I studied art. In Chinese and Japanese paintings there should be spirit Chi / Kami.

Lung Tom

Mrs Willow

Posts:103

09/08/2008 7:56 PM	Alert
Your watercolour looks immediate , just like a watercolour done "on the spot" should. I used to like painting on location and still do, but I have had some scary experiences, so I have resorted to using photographs....not to copy them but to remind me of why I was attracted to the subject in the first place. Sandy

Lung Tom
Posts:225

09/08/2008 10:27 PM	Alert
Thank you Mrs Willow. My spontaneity comes from my studying painting in Japan in the late 1940's To show a spirit (Kami) in your paintings dynamic brush strokes do the trick.

Lung Tom

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