14"x12" oil/panel
As my mind altering cold fades I find the energy to at least tweak 2 pieces that I felt needed changes. The top is a piece that is a Gruppe study. The bottom is from 2 posts ago. I couldn't stand that dark value in the water. Somehow I saw like that when painting but thankfully I see it differently now!
5"x7" oil
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Did you heard about or read the french horror story "Le Horla" by Guy de Maupassant (XIXe century) ? There is a great white three-master boat which may have brought on coast a supernatural being who now haunts the narrator mind – but maybe the narrator mind is destroyed enough to be haunted by itself... Quite a similar atmosphere can be found around the boat which brings Dracula abroad in Bram Stoker's novel. That's exactly the feeling I get with your first painting : a haunting one (and that is obviously a compliment!)
I love how the wind (clouds) and the sails are one.
Glad you're beating the bug!
Oh. I just noticed that most of the sails aren't even up; just a jib and the mizen. That's even better; the winds ARE the sails. Cool.
Bonjour Jean- Baptiste. An interesting observation of this piece considering my interest in such things. I have not read the French story but will now plan on doing so. I often times feel a joyful darkness in my work that I do not plan nor aim to achieve. It seems to just happen...
Hey Sam.
Not sure how Gruppe would feel about my interpretation. I always seem to include a vagueness that makes the eyes and mind struggle for a conclusion. Perhaps Jean-Baptiste is onto something. I might be a monster :D
Mais non! Tu es une gargouille. : )
A fire breathing, long necked dragon? Well, somedays that's certaintly true. But almost never before noon.....I'm quite good at diverting water also.
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