Name: Ray Wilkins
Location: Bonn /Cologne, Belgium
Title: ‘Fire Opal in The Sky’
Price of Original: SOLD
Size: 80 x 50 cm
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Artist web site:
http://www.artemotions-ray.blogspot.com/
http://www.timeandspaceshop.com/epages/62196879.sf
From Ray:
This was a commissioned piece- no longer available
4 responses so far ↓
1 vikki // Jan 16, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Very Turbulent and firey Ray. I wasn’t aware you had more abstract works. Yet as I look at this – I can see the detail edging between the sky and mountains. This is really a beautiful piece.
It appears you did a dry brushing and palette knife with the sky?
2 ray // Jan 17, 2010 at 6:15 am
yes thats right vikki! and the mountains are just palette knife. the client wanted a painting for his girlfriend – a figurative sunrise! have you guys ever tried to paint a sunrise realistically? after 4 paintovers and 3 weeks of work, and all that for a mere 700 dollars i decided just to follow my intuition and paint abstract/impressionistic and it worked the girlfriend loves the painting!! it was a risk, but it worked!
3 vikki // Jan 17, 2010 at 1:51 pm
I think landscapes and sunrise are the single most difficult thing to paint! And yes I’m sure as you can tell, I’ve tried and failed numerous times. And I also think abstracts are really difficult to do well- so when I see something like this I can thoroughly appreciate the struggle and reward when it comes together beautifully.
4 Lisa aka ASIL // Jan 17, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Beautiful piece. The title is very well chosen. I love minimal landscapes.
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