Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Children Sitting On A Park Bench

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Children Sitting On A Park Bench   16x20  Oils on canvas panel

Image updated 3/31/2010

These two are intently watching something in the grass. I wonder what it is?  :-)

I'll glare at this one for a while - I feel the need to make more showdowy shadows! The light is coming from the right but the children's shadows don't show that clearly - if at all.

I took a break from making canvases and frames to make a painting.  My palette had some two-day-old glumps of paint on it so . . . .   Surprisingly some had not dried at all and some were completely dry!  I dislike wasting paint, but I like to have enough on my palette that I don't have to find the tube then squeeze out some more.  Half the time I don't know the name of the color I'm using at the time anyhow!  Much of what I do is straight out of the tube - for instance the boy's shirt is four or five reds with Gamblin's Radiant Magenta as the lightest "red".

3/31/2010 - UPDATE - I darkened the "shadow" side of the foreground objects - the children, the tree and the trash container.

4 comments:

  1. I think I have seen these kids somewhere.. I like it.

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  2. Hi Irina! I saw your comment and approved it, but now it's gone - the post said 1 comment . . . Now the count should be 2?!?!

    I wonder where you have seen the children? Hmmmmmm :-)

    VERY VERY happy that you're safe and extremely sad that some people in Moscow were killed or injured. Please be safe.

    Ken B.

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  3. Hi Ken,
    Very nice painting, the children are so lovely. The girl is simply adorable! You have managed to include all the beauty, innocence and joy of kids playing.
    I don't like wasting oil painting when I paint either (that said, I've painted with oils like... 6-7 times?), but here in Lima the oils last almost fresh on the pallete for more than a couple of days. I think it is because of the high humidity of the air (it's like 70% in summer, and we reach 100% in winter).
    Un gran abrazo :):):)
    Carolina

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  4. Thank you Carolina. I now have an updated image in the posting. Hopefully it looks better - I didn't want to spoil it.

    Ken B.

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