The Metropolitan Museum is having a great exhibition of JMW Turner’s oil and watercolor paintings; originally I was planning to take pictures for all of his works, but unfortunately photograph was prohibited for this special exhibition. I took only one picture and was caught and warned by a guard there immediately, luckily they won’t force you to delete what you just took.
Turner is a master of light as we can see in this following painting – fisherman at Sea; I did a little research online before posting this picture of mine, and found non of them have good color representation of the original as the one I took. Even though it’s a bit blur (was took in a hurry) but the color is as close as it can get except it’s slightly warmer according to my monitor.
One thing the impresses me most about this oil painting is how the muddy color around the sun become so bright under the contrast of its extremely dark surroundings. When we are painting a bright object, more often than not we would feel it is not bright enough; the real reason for the most part is not the brightness of the objects itself but the darkness of its surroundings. Given enough contrast, the colors will fool our eyes and make us believe muddiness as bright colors.
Make a good use of muddy colors will not only help deepen the space of a painting but also make the painting appears more natural.
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I enjoy the Arts. Watercolor Art is a favorite. My talent is average-meaning I can draw looking at something, but not free flow from the head. The painting is gorgeous. I am glad you stepped over the line to get your photos. Thank you for sharing.
As always I am amazed at your talent and finally find out how to view my yahoo page where I receive your latest projects. I can’t believe there is a chance I won’t be able to enjoy watching you work. I am learning so much from you and I am get point trying to use your techniques
Namasta
As always I am amazed at your talent. I finally was able to view your new works from MY
YAHOO page where I receive your latest projects I can’t believe there is a chance that I won’t be able to enjoy your work. I have learned soooo much from you and I am using the techniques I learn from you to create some paintings of my own. You have my email address please please keep me posted.
Nmasta
Wonderful watercolor…….While painting nature it never seems satisfying and as nature is…..really good works!!!
Your paintings are so talented, such a pleasure to look at!
JMW Turner exhibition was in Moscow this winter, 2 hours stand in line. Here are the photos of almost all his paintings. I am sure you are still interested.
http://lukas-pro.livejournal.com/952557.html