Monhegan Museum

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Small on June 14, 2008 at 8:53am

It's a good painting, Jon; reminiscent of Hopper. I like the horizontal format taking in the long series of connected parts of the building. Good strong shadows. Would a little highlight along gunwales at the bow of the shadowed boat help bring it forward or would it distract the eye away from the center of interest of the main house?

I did a little painting of the opposite side of the building on a fogged in day. Everything I wore and everything I in my paint kit was soaked through.

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan McPhillips on June 14, 2008 at 10:37am

Jonathan,
Thanks, you may be right about the light hitting the top of the boat.
I'll give it a try. it may have better seperation in real life.

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Permalink Reply by Ken Rosenthal on June 15, 2008 at 5:37pm

It's a wonderful painting Jon. Did you do a smaller version last year, plein air? I'm curious to know if you used glazing on the roofs. You accomplish a trick of the eye, especially in the cooler areas of those roofs. There is a quality of light sometimes in nature that is a sort of hazy, almost blinding kind of thing. You evoke that in this painting. I see it in the way you've rendered the sky, and muted the shadows.

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan McPhillips on June 20, 2008 at 10:18am

Ken,
Thanks.
The roofs are glazed a bit. there was an underpainting of green on them, then a couple layers of reds. I am trying to paint more direct on large surfaces like I might on smaller plein airs, but i find i have to experiment more on the large surface.
jon

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