Sachuest Point

11/22/2009

Sachuest Point

This was done on the same day as "On Taylors Lane." It is of the mouth of the Sakonnet River and the Atlantic Ocean looking across to Sachuest Point at Newport, RI. I was on the rocky beach at the foot of Tayors lane at Little Compton, RI. I had a little bit of paint left on my palette to use. I don't do these studies to mop up my palette because I am frugal. It is usually because I don't want to stop painting and the limited amount of pigment on my palette gives me a challenge to see what I can create with limited supplies. A heavy-wieght watercolor paper is good to paint on. I have primed them with gelatin, which creates a wonderful surface and acrylic medium, which is probably better but not as velvety to paint on.

Douglas and Kristen Yock Collection

Nov 22, 2009 1:23:55 PM | Paintings

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LOVELY PAINTING. WHAT A GREAT IDEA TO USE THE LAST OF YOUR PAINTS TO CREATE WHAT YOU CAN. IT SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT WAY TO PAINT IN WAYS YOU MIGHT NEVER HAVE THOUGHT OF IF YOU HAD ACCESS TO ALL THE DIFFERENT COLORS.

Posted by: DONNA | 12/21/2009 at 06:19 PM

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On Taylors Lane 8 x 10 inches, oil paint on canvas panel Copyright 2009, John A. Brecht, all rights reserved This was painted on a grey, stormy October day at Little Compton, RI. This is looking south toward the ocean as thick clouds rolled by. This grey-day light is a different painting situation than one is normally used to. It is flat and cool, lending no obvious contrasts to capitalize on, other than the line between earth and sky.

Field Near Vaucluse 3 x 12 inches, oil paint on wood panel Copyright 2009, John A. Brecht, all rights reserved This is another quick study executed at the Yonce farm in Vaucluse, SC. Having been raised on Lake Michigan, the horizon and distant vistas have a very deep and meaningful significance in my sensibilities. There is nothing more conceptually stimulating than the unbroken horizon line between sky and earth. It is the visual common denominator. While painting open vistas such as above, my mind wonders and then constructs imaginary spaces that are in and amongst and beyond the trees and distant tree lines....