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| Winter Sunrise at the Dock - In Progress |
It was a balmy 45 degrees on this early February morning. I was taking every one of these warm winter days as a gift, and a day closer to spring! The sunrise was the brightest part of the day and a thick blanket of clouds filled in as I painted. Boats don't look half as large in the water as they do dry docked (literally and figuratively). This large and imposing commercial lobster boat sat on its trailer in the boatyard, a green tarp tied across the top. A dinghy full of moorings was wedged against the Harbormaster's office and a pile of lobster traps were stacked to the rear. I was going after a dramatic composition and hoping that having a large mass to the right might be striking enough.
The peach glow of sunrise turned everything orange - orangey green tarp, orangey white boat, orangey gray pavement. In contrast, the darkest shadows were as blue as could be. Then just as quickly, the scene turned into a black and white photograph. The objects didn't move and they were "painted from life" but I was improvising on color for the last 90 minutes of the paint out!
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