Rotary Park
A View ORotary Park, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches, copyright ©2018
Rotary Park on the Snohomish River is one of those paintings that, while not very complex, was difficult to bring to a conclusion. This often happens when a the subject changes quite radically over time. It was a painting that has been chased all over the place over the past year.
The main problem was that the City of Everett neglects to trim back the foreground, and I kept having to shift my point-of-view to see my subject. By summer's end the Snohomish River was barely, a profusion of jungle à la Le Douanier Rousseau.
There is always the possibility that by chasing a scene's changes, it will escape from me entirely. I'm reminded of Antonio López García's basement of failures in Victor Erice's "The Quince Tree Sun." Nature inspires, but she never cooperates.
Rotary Park on the Snohomish River is one of those paintings that, while not very complex, was difficult to bring to a conclusion. This often happens when a the subject changes quite radically over time. It was a painting that has been chased all over the place over the past year.
The main problem was that the City of Everett neglects to trim back the foreground, and I kept having to shift my point-of-view to see my subject. By summer's end the Snohomish River was barely, a profusion of jungle à la Le Douanier Rousseau.
There is always the possibility that by chasing a scene's changes, it will escape from me entirely. I'm reminded of Antonio López García's basement of failures in Victor Erice's "The Quince Tree Sun." Nature inspires, but she never cooperates.
