“Loire Working Boats”
“Loire Working Boats”
by Robert Leedy, 2003,
watercolor on paper,
Collection of Mary Loftus, Paris, France
This was a plein air painting I did somewhere on the Loire River in France during the summer of 2003.
Design-wise, I like the almost square format. I think I began drawing on a rectangular block of watercolor paper and soon realized that this was going to be a square composition. I never dictate a painting’s dimensions like the many watercolorists I know who paint within an exact, predetermined set of dimensions that usually (and not by chance) correspond to the same dimensions as a stack of pre-cut matts or bulk ordered frames. I guess I could save money on framing but I don’t like the limitations. This is not to say that I don’t delineate a border on the watercolor paper – I normally do. But sometimes I like the freedom to go beyond those borders – or perhaps fall short of them. It’s a mere guideline for me…
The composition is tight and closed. This is often a good thing when you are sitting in front of an overwhelming landscape. What I would call one of the good limitations.
The orange and reds complement the predominant greens and blues of the painting very nicely.
This is one of those subjects that I could have done a dozen paintings from and enjoyed everyone of them…
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- July 22, 2007 / 2:30 pm
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- Americans in Paris, Art, Artists, France, Leedy Artwork, Loire Valley, Painters, Painting, Plein Air Painting, Watercolor, Watercolour
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