Thursday, June 7, 2012
What's in a painting.....?
I have had some questions on the Camarillo Cathedral painting that you can look at below. I guess I read too many art reviews - and the best of all art mags, "Plein Air", where writers are always looking for all kinds of motivation and symbols in better paintings than mine? I like that. So I try to sneak a few in to most of what I do actually. For example: In my 8x10 painting of this place - again, please look below - there is a touch of "sun glow" in the towering clouds in the upper left of the canvas. That lofty cloud, and the attention-drawing color, is meant to represent the bell tower of the actual church - only this clowd representation is reaching up high to the heavens, extending in a way the "reach" of the place and the people who come here. The telephone poles at lower left reflect the hard working-class "neighborhood", as well as "getting the good-word out", and the small buildings again on the lower left of the canvas represent the modest community and priests that surround the place. I depict the East side of the structure, not the front that faces N. I chose it because it faces the rising sun every day, representing eternity, and God's daily creations and challanges - new with every sunrise. And - I painted it on Good Friday. WOW. All that into one painting plan. It's too much information but now you know.
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