"Sara's Red Canoe" - pastel 36x48
Ok, today I broke down and painted red canoes. While I love paddling canoes, painting them in paintings is not my thing, but last year I started a series called vacation portraits and "Sara's Canoe" will go into that series. I will probably do more so called "up north" works for the vacation portraits series as the winter goes on. I also did a canoe called "Christine's Canoe" which will also go in the vacation portraits series. I post both of them here just to show everyone how differently things can seen. Sara wanted a red canoe in a red canoe environment - I tried to paint a canoe in a canoe environment - "Christine's Canoe": was the result. My husband kept saying before I painted the water blue instead of green but there's no water for the canoe - I said it's in a marsh, abandoned. He said but there's no water in the marsh. I said it was fall. (Note I just can't let him in the studio during process - he effects how I think and my freedom to create). So I painted the water blue. Then I made a second attempt "Sara's canoe" is the result. Needless to say my husband loved the second one. Ah me.
I will post both here - let me know which you like and why.
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