Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Flooded Trunks, 9 x 12, oil, by Ron Donoughe

Rain, rain go away. The excess water in the rivers has caused a lot of this, flooded trunks. These reflections appeared to move with the viewer. Very strange. The same phenomenon seems to happen with eyes on some museum portraits. The general rule with reflection is that dark values reflect lighter, lights reflect darker and middle tones reflect about the same.


This is one of the 60 newly posted paintings on my web site.
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8 comments:

Mary Beth Brath said...

Beautiful painting Ron. I also enjoy the teaching you do in the text.

Christine Marx said...

It's amazing how you can create such a beautiful composition of out any subject matter!

Jennifer VonStein said...

The water does seem to move - good job on all the reflections!

Unknown said...

Thank you Ron; your painting and the tips are appreciated too

Claire Beadon Carnell said...

I have seen so much of this lately - but you have made something beautiful here! Also love the painting tips.

Maria Kovalenko Leysens said...

Thanks Ron, for sharing. Water everywhere. I dug a trench to put a board in for a raised garden bed... it filled with water before I was finished. Now I have a "water feature"...

Cecelia Lyden said...

The saying,"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." comes to mind. How many of us have cloudy,rainy looking paintings now? Can't wait around for sunshine this spring. I've actually started a painting of ferns in my garden, sitting inside, looking out the window--went out during a rain stoppage to work on it today-3 mins into it it began raining again. Interesting info, Ron, and nice work as always.

Debra Kreiger said...

Nice painting Ron. The sun finally came out today!yea!