oil on paper
6"x6.5"
I'm not sure what this fantastic contraption made up of cylinders, triangles and lines is used for. I think maybe it is a fuel refinery (but please correct me if I'm wrong and I'll change the title). As far as what exactly goes on inside a fuel refinery- um, I really couldn't say but maybe this.
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Hi Taryn,
Looks more like storage silos and grain shoots. If it was for liquids or fuel I would think the plumbing would be more horizontal and not using so much gravity. Maybe they are making bio fuel and storing grain like corn. Interesting painting and it does get the viewer to "think".
Thanks for your input, Larry. I know it has something to do with fuel, because there is a gas pump, and fuel oil trucks all over the place. Just not sure I have the correct term. Someone told me that it is a very old, and unsafe looking fuel refinery- newer ones have the "silos" spread apart from each other.
This has a lot of detail for such a small painting.
Have you ever painted ships or boats?
These structures remind me of the
scale of maritime paintings...
Which I am drawn too!
Larry, with embarrassment I admit that you were correct. I heard from one of the owners, who says Guess what?! I heard from one of the owners of this facility, who has corrected me, and boy I sure needed correcting! He says "this is a grain storage facility with accompanying grain-moving equipment such as elevators, augurs, etc. The grain is moved from these outside silos (the cylinders) to equipment inside the feed mill to be processed into bird and animal feed."
Don't know why there were fuel trucks everywhere.
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