Calm Waters
by Shelli Fitzpatrick
Title
Calm Waters
Artist
Shelli Fitzpatrick
Medium
Mixed Media - Digital Oil From Photo
Description
A peaceful scene of sailboats sitting still in calm waters in the golden twilight that exists between day and night or an anxious scene of boats enduring another day at sea with no wind in the sails preparing for another long dark night hoping for a breeze? With this image
I wanted to challenge your interpretations of how you see things. Is it dawn or dusk? Are they working fishing boats finished with their work or just starting? Or are these just recreational sailboats resting in a marina? Are they stranded out in open waters waiting for a wind to come up so that they can make it in to shore? To me the beauty of a piece of abstract or impressionist art is that it is open for the viewer to decide what they see and not everyone will see the same thing.
Sometimes I see a photograph and it speaks to me. That is what happened with the reference photo I used to make this piece with. It called to me saying," I need to be a classic painting..." and I answered by turning it into this... I made this from a free stock image in the public domain.
The colors in this scene are shades of golden yellow, and warm peachy orange with grays, tans, greens and red highlights in the actual boats.
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November 3rd, 2017
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