 |
| sold |
 |
| Reference photo |
I love New York, NY. I don't want to live there, but would drop everything to visit the city anytime. So much energy and cultural diversity! The above picture was taken a few years ago on a family mini-vacation. It was a mild, overcast spring day. We had walked for I don't know how many blocks from our hotel at Times Square, stopping at many landmarks. Our destination was the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an afternoon of Ancient Egyptian history and culture. (I would have spent the time looking at paintings, but my daughter would have none of that and wanted to visit the world-famous Egyptian collection. Sigh.)
Central Park was crowded as it was a weekend day. I don't know how New Yorkers would manage without this green haven. Thank goodness, we had Frederick Law Olmsted, who had the vision to design this beautiful park! Do you recognize the famous bridge, which had been featured in countless movies?
I wanted to paint the scene for a long time. But something held me back. Do you know that made me hesitate? It was the tyranny of the color green. It's green in the foreground, middle ground, and background. I might as well pour a bucket of diluted green on the canvas and call it quits!
I thought long and hard about the problem and decided to take an artistic license. I made the foreground greens warm (with the various mixtures of cobalt blue, cadminum yellow medium, and some reds), while keeping the middle ground greens pale and cool (with cerulean blue, cadmium yellow light, some reds, and lots of titanium white). The background greens just above and below the bridge are muted violets. I edited out the tiny figures to enhance the serene mood I was going after. What do you think of the result of my efforts?
No comments:
Post a Comment