A Boat in the Waters off Capri

6x8 acrylic on canvasboard

Something different today- and probably for the next few days. This is study of a painting by John Singer Sargent, who is hands down my favorite painter, and you know, you can lern a lot by copying works of artists you admire- thankfully, Sargent has been dead long enough that this is legal, and I believe I can learn a lot of big-picture stuff- composition, color balance- by studying his work in my dailies. Like this one- that is a really fantastic blue-green, and it fades to, of all things, a dull purple. And he didn't feel like he had to absolutely spll out where the water ended, you know, he didn't draw lines around every freaking thing, but it still feels like water.... thanks in part, no doubt, to the boat shadows. Aren't those the coolest thing?

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