Here's my contribution for this week's
While I appreciate looking at picturesque scenery
as much as the next person, I don't enjoy
doing landscapes in art. It just doesn't capture
my interest or imagination like portraits and figures do.
Consequently, I rarely post any landscapes
of mine since they all look pretty uninspired.
But I actually do like this one from a
watercolour class last year, so here it is.
Just pretend some of that atmospheric stuff
hanging around/above the shoreline is fog, okay?
I'm not really sure what the hell it's supposed to be.
[Artwork © Debra She Who Seeks, 2024]
Purple rain?
ReplyDelete@ Tundra Bunny -- Prince lives again!
DeleteVery good, keep creating.
ReplyDeleteI like it a lot though I also get liking one kinda thing over another. For me that's macro over any other kinda photos. Just calls my name. So I do get that you like portraits better.
ReplyDeleteI like it!
ReplyDeleteI like it.... The subdued colors bring the sensibility of Fog.
ReplyDelete😄 I like it! My favorite artist is Claude Monet so I really love impressions of reality and your example is very nice. The first Monet I ever saw* was a large canvas from the Water Lilies series. I sat and ogled it a long time and was mesmerized by an orange and white splotch in the upper right corner. Maybe it was the sun, but I like thinking Monet dropped a splotch accidently and left it there just 'cause. 🤭
ReplyDelete*I saw it at the wonderful Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in KC, Missouri (my hometown). If you look up the museum online, you'll see a photo of the iconic outdoor art display...the world's largest shuttlecock! 😃 My high school poetry teacher was married to that artist and, yes, she was just as cool a teacher as that would imply!! 😎
@ Cleora Borealis -- I've always loved Monet, too! So wonderful for you to have had a cool art teacher in high school!
DeleteFog, or storm moving through. Either way, it is nice. Good for daydreaming.
ReplyDeleteit's a lovely painting - very atmospheric and i like your mark making..... almost gogh'ey
ReplyDelete@ Arctic Fox -- "Gogh'ey" is now my Word of the Day, LOL! Thanks!
Deletedee mum likes it!
ReplyDeleteLovely. I looove fog. So eerie, especially in October.
ReplyDeleteA seascape should look watery and atmospheric and this one certainly does! I love the colors, both sky and sea, and the strength of the headland.
ReplyDeleteLovely!
ReplyDeleteI actually find that honesty really refreshing
ReplyDeleteCodex: very funny. I feel the same about landscapes. Just wish I'd told people that sunsets by the sea are pollution.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice though.
Codex: I meant my odd skies in my landscape paintings
Delete...wowzer!
ReplyDeleteVery watery. But its supposed to be. It's watercolour!
ReplyDeleteThat's beautiful, Debra. It would make a great decoration for International Woman Wombat Day.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
@ Janie Junebug -- Hahahahaha, I agree.
DeleteVery Monet. Or is it Renoir? Or Van Gogh? Whatever, I love it.
ReplyDeleteWonderful! really beautiful artwork! Have a wonderful evening!
ReplyDeleteNot too shabby at all. The only thing I can draw is flies.
ReplyDeleteIt's a beautiful painting.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite artist is Claude Monet and this reminds me of his art.
ReplyDeleteI think it´s wonderful. And now I have "Purple Rain" in my head. I watched the movie. In French. To cuddle up with a boy, I was 14... he was 18 and sadly I had to go back to Germany after two weeks. That was pre-internet. Wonder what´s become of him, it´s a bit foggy ;-)
ReplyDeleteI do like the colors and the whole effect of the painting. This is something I couldn't do at all. I'd just muddy up the water color paints.
ReplyDeleteThat definitely looks like fog.
ReplyDeleteIt's really good Debra! You captured movement very well, especially in the water. And the washes work well to combine the colors. ♥♥
ReplyDeleteYou have nothing to worry about with your landscape art. I think this is a beautiful painting. I love the various shades in the water. I can almost hear the waves moving and being near the cost, you can never predict when the fog might roll in. Many years ago, we visited West Quoddy Lighthouse in Maine. It's near the Canadian border. It was late in late October. The weather was already a bit cloudy. Our kids were all small ages 3 to 9. We walked out one of the trails to the beach to get some photos of the lighthouse when it turned really dark and it began hailing. We ran like crazy people for the car as tiny pieces of ice pelted us with the fog horn blaring. Man, was that ever loud! Just as we got inside our vehicle, the hail stopped and thankfully the fog horn did, too. The clouds began breaking a bit reveal blue skies. Wait a minute, there's no fog in that memory. Why am I talking about this? *roll eyes* Okay, just go with it. You can imagine being in such a remote place as this so far north with fog rolling in off the sea. :) That being said every time we've been in Maine, we have seen plenty of fog on the water. It's beautiful, too. Have a doodletastic day, mi dear! xo
ReplyDeleteI like it, and I see fog!
ReplyDeleteThat is really beautiful.
ReplyDeleteLove this piece, Debra!
ReplyDeleteI love it. Send it over here when you get tired of it. I'll hang it for sure.
ReplyDeleteFog is tough to portray I think still you did great job here because your beautiful art is appealing to eyes 🤗♥️👍
ReplyDeleteYou are wonderful artist undoubtedly my friend 🥰👌
Debra... this is REALLY good art!!!! I LOVE landscapes best and this one does not look uninspired or mundane at all. Its lovely!
ReplyDeleteThe sky does get purple at times, so I'll go with it.
ReplyDeleteI really like your piece, Debra! It remind me of being on the Fundy Shore. Happy weekend!
ReplyDeleteI love it. I prefer landscapes and yours is lovely. It’s a moody sky.
ReplyDeleteThat is nice . It gives me feelings about being in that place. One day, me and my brother were visiting a place like that, and we found a dead porpoise or dolphin washed up on the beach. It had been dead for just a day or three. It was amazing to see. It wasn't smelly yet. I wanted to take a tooth from it. My brother actually helped me do that . You will be freaking out by now, but I think we did the correct thing.
ReplyDelete@ Richard -- That dolphin wasn't going to be using that tooth anymore anyway.
Deletevery nice, I like it. I don't have the patient for landscapes, it takes to looooong! Betty
ReplyDeleteI'm with you. I have tried landscape painting and It doesn't do much for me as well. However, you art is so fabulous that this really captures my attention. I hope you are joining in FFO portrait challenge.
ReplyDelete@ DVArtist -- You bet I am! I have the date diarized and I've picked out the photo I am going to attempt to draw!
DeleteReminds me of Monet...I love the colors..You and I like to paint the exact opposite subjects... I could not paint a portrait or a figure if my life depended on it. Yours are great!
ReplyDeletePerfect, perfect, perfect. Love the fog.
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