Daily Painting

Daily painting: Fishing boats, Jungutbatu

Fishing boats, Jungutbatu

18cm x 12cm, oil on board

Painting status: SOLD

Painted Saturday, 5 February 2011 · Paintings of Bali

The conversation

Thoughts on this painting

9 comments

Barbara Segal

This is one of the best I've seen--so clear and beautiful in design, and the boats hold the space so well that the water can 'float' and play. Really lovely..and different, too.

gecko

Well it may feel as though the picture was there before you started but it certainly doesn't look like it! Did you take your 'toned raw/burnt sienna board' with you or is your (current?) little island's art shop well stocked up with it just in case rather less gifted painters (punters, perhaps) have the same idea?
Another delight, whatever. Many thanks once more.

Alain

Surprising!
"So very japanese"indeed,as said Shirley Fachilla.A parallelism also with "Morning in the lagoon"(Venice)and this one,but of course,in an other color scale.
What an uplifting picture!

Beth

Yes, I think this is one of the best so far! The composition becomes almost abstract, and the complementary blues and yellow work beautifully in both the subject and the interplay of water and sand. Beautiful, and simple.

Catherine

I love paintings of boats; I took many photos of them when we were in Portovenere, Italy (you MUST go--the light, the color!).
Thank you for this trip to Bali,but I must go now and chip more ice off my sidewalk!!

Judy

Yes, this is wonderful for all the right reasons. Explanations of your color, etc. are of great interest to your fans (read students).

Painter’s notes

I couldn't resist the inverted colours of sand and sea in these beached fishing boats. I used a toned raw/burnt sienna board for this, which means a lot of the basic tone and colour is there before you apply a stroke—it feels like you have a finished painting almost as soon as you start.

Julian Merrow-Smith ·