“Sailing” – Oil – 20″x16″
This a sailboat making its way through the fog as the photographer snaps a picture (and captures a bit of lens flare). It’s not based on a real photo.
I did the background many months ago and planned on continuing to layer it with islands and trees until it was very detailed, but I lost interest. During the whale watching trip I took recently, I saw a lot of sailboats and thought I should add one to the painting. The fog was just creative license. The lens flare is because I’ve been taking so many photos lately and I wanted to incorporate that joy (of photography, not of lens flare, haha) into a traditional medium. Having all the “interesting parts” to the left side creates a sort of tension that makes you almost expect a ship to come out of the fog on the right. Maybe I should have added some whales?
Wow, very nice. A whale coming up to spray off to the right might look pretty cool!