Solitude Found with A Kayak
Do you Kayak?
If you have been kayaking before then you will understand the experience. Perhaps if you have not tried the Kayak, maybe this Journal will encourage you. Of course, there are those who only want to boat on the water with a motor. From personal experience, Kayaking is always an adventure that delivers so much in a more solitude way. During trips on the water, I have had dolphins swim up behind me with only the sound of air blowing, so quietly. Gliding along the water watching alligators, sharks, fish, manatee and of course so many birds. On a recent trip we observed white pelicans and roseate spoonbills. So So Glorious, to see animals living in nature uninterrupted and being part of the moment, or day.
Why paint a Kayak??
Kayaks were used thousands of years ago by the Alaskan Inuits. Mostly for hunting and fishing, being able to quietly sneak up on fish or animals. Today just remaining in a state of observation during an outing is fascinating. I was challenging myself exploring the idea of painting “the experience” . If one looks at the painting, they should immediately find themselves back in that memory of kayaking.
Before embarking on a painting the process of a value study is like training of the brain in the detail and aspects that can be chosen for the completion of this type of exercise. It is easy on paper to add, delete or change something before the oils hit the canvas.
The first thing to study, is the dark and lights. After that the focal area of interest should be considered. Can this idea bring forth a story of what the day was like??
The life and death of the saw grass in only a moment of that flow in which time, the vastest river, carries us and all life forward.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Using a Palette Knife
This is what was completed. Using water-soluble oil paints applied with a palette knife. This treatment becomes more impressionistic rather than realism. There are days, that the only thing one needs is to be near the water during sunset with a long rest feeding the soul!
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