Artist: Karen Breen
Oil Painting on canvas
60" by 40"
Gray frame with black runner
Title: A Good Day
Price: Contact Artist
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Oil Painting on canvas 60" by 40" Gray frame with black runner Title: A Good Day Price: Contact Artist
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| This painting won the "Best of Show" ribbon in an art exhibit in Maryland. The subject matter is a bird's eye view of a garbage can on a boat filled with bloody water and dead bluefish. The artist said some people responded to the title, A Good Day, by asking "Yeah, for whom?" The composition is asymmetrically balanced with the railing and the vertical edge of the boat leading your eye into the spiral of the tub of fish. The metallic look in the garbage can is brilliantly achieved through coloring and transparent glazing. Purple, silver blue, red, green, pink, yellow, orange - almost every color I can think of - can be found in this can. This works because the colors are not over mixed (which would have resulted in a murky brown or gray). It looks like the artist applied each color directly to the canvas and used cross hatching brush strokes to blend the paint. Then she glazed some colors - like the silver blue over the red in the bottom left edge of the can. This gives the can form and depth. Breen used a thin white transparent glaze over the fish to create water. The contrast between the warm and the cool colors defines where the fish tails are coming up out of the water. | |