I’m taking time off to take advantage of the fantastic weather (sorry east coast, don’t mean to brag 😉 If the weather holds out, I’ll stay here until Sunday night.
I arrived late, so only had time for one quick study. Drove around a bit, then found these dry-docked boats at the Stanford University Marine Center. Late-afternoon light, my favorite. I think I regret putting the sky in. I’ll have to live with this a couple of days to determine whether it was a good idea or not. What do you think?
I’d personally would chose to keep the sky, as it adds space by creating a third stage, the background, which in this case is nice in my opinion.
And I like how the blue comes back in the colours of the boat.
I don’t know the colours in real – of this painting 🙂 – but would you have liked the colour of the sky/top of the trees slightly more sunny to match the bright colours of the foreground?
Have a good trip!
Hey Bart: The color of the boat is white and blue. I think I “stretched” the shadow colors quite a bit, but I wanted to have fun! The trees behind are Monterey Cypress (very dark), which provided the perfect background for the boats in sun. There are some lights on the trees, but I played them down as I didn’t want that light competing too much with the other lights in the picture.
Ed…Love the looks of the new blog and the direction that you are taking with it. Could spend hours here…nice things going on! Bravo !!
As for ” Dry Dock Twins “, after reading your reply (expanation) to Bart, IMHO, I think it is now a non issue. 😉 I think it makes a nice visual “resting spot”.
Take care, Frank.
Ed,
One little trick I use is I will step back and hold part of my hand or finger outstretched in front of my eyes so I can see the entire painting but not see the questionable part. I then ask myself both what I expect to see there and what I want to see there. I did that with this painting, and I would expect to see more trees there, but it would give it a too symetrical look, so I want to see sky there. I vote for sky.
thanks Frank and Donald for your advice. So great to get critiques online!