LAST year during some free time after a trade show in Denver, I visited the Colorado State Railroad Museum in Golden. It's a great museum for a train buff! I took a series of separate frontal shots of some engines on static display, and later realized there was a sort of chronology there. So-voila! My very first quadtych. (Now there's a word for you.) This has to be one of the most difficult things I've ever attempted. Although each canvas is only 12X16 inches, keeping the same "feel" between all of them when you only paint 3-8 hours a week is damned difficult, I must say. As noted, these are in progress-perhaps about 85 per cent complete. Notice something missing? No steam is coming from the 3 engines on the left–yet. That diesel-electric on the right might get some some nice blue exhaust smoke, too. Eventually, I plan on producing a poster to sell in the CO museum (assuming they'll take 'em).
I love them. Four separate paintings can go together on one wall or one on each wall of a room. I like how the mountain in the background joins the separate paintings together. Very clever. I can't wait to see them when they are complete. Get painting!
ReplyDeleteAww, shucks, honey!
ReplyDeleteAfter reading Lisa's comment, I went back and confirmed her landscape observation and re-read the artistic future touches. Then, hee hee, the thought occurred to me... what would the painting look like when all four engines moving in unison came together on the same track at the same time about 100 feet ahead! Sorry, I'm the guy who ran the little electric Lionel trains at high speed on the turns. :-D
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