Painting water that isn't blue

[corvideye]

I did this painting last August, just hadn't gotten around to scanning and posting it. I was camping on the south McKenzie for a long enough stint that I could spend a few hours doing a real plein aire painting. I had been pondering for a while that one's programmed instinct is to depict water as blue--but the river up there isn't blue at all.

Comments

[fjorlief]

I love the colors that are in your painting, it reminds me of the soft golden light as the sun goes down. The way that you have the shadow falling across the lower right really adds depth, and the way that the colors of shadowed part of the water make it look like exactly the shadowed part of the water really impresses me!

[corvideye]

Thanks!

[hrothgar1]

I like this one!

[janabard]

This is PERFECT for the Schubert song cycle "Die Schöne Müllerin" (on which somebody presented a final project in class last week): It's about a guy who falls in love with the beautiful miller's daughter, but she falls in love with a hunter instead-- so the guy goes through the whole song cycle singing to, with, and at the brook while being obsessed with the color green.

He sings to the brook as though it were his dearest friend and cruelest fate, all at once. When I look at your painting, I see a brook with all of those possibilities!