Running with the autumn wind

[bunn]

( click to embiggen!)
I'm quite pleased with it overall, particularly the way it's worked using only 2 colours and the wind-dog. Az (grey) looks just a bit stiff, and the camera hasn't quite picked up the sparkly yellow highlights in the foreground. I'm not quite sure about the lighting, though you get the general idea, the beams of light coming through the clouds onto the sea are maybe a bit solid and splodgy...

Comments

[seascribe.livejournal.com]

It's quite lovely!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thanks! (I have good models!)

[motetus.livejournal.com]

That is AMAZING. The oranges and blues go together so well, and the dogs are just lovely. Wind-dog is just spectacular!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was coincidence that I have a Payne's Grey coloured dog and a Burnt Sienna dog, but once I realised they were the colour of the sky and the land it had to be done!

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

The colour choices especially are lovely.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to do more things with only a few contrasting colours : I shall try to work up to full colour paintings. Am inclined to think that getting it right with lots of hues makes it harder.

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

That's gorgeous!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[chainmailmaiden]

I really like that and I'm impressed you did it with only 2 colours, I hadn't noticed that until I read what you'd written about it.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Well, if I'm honest there is a tiny tiny bit of chromium yellow in there as well, but not much. Mark points out that orange and teal contrast colours are the colours that a lot of films use. I just picked dog colours!

[na-lon.livejournal.com]

I really like this. I like the idea of the wind as a dog. I think the light works well: it's the way it reflects of the river further inland that appeals to me in particular. Thanks for sharing it.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm not sure about the light on the sea - it looks fabulous when it does that in real life (for some reason there is often a gap in the clouds just over Plymouth, perhaps something to do with all the houses changing the local weather, or maybe it's the river) but I think I need to practice more to give it that really luminous translucent quality. But you can see where I'm trying to go with it.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

That's lovely. The two colors really do work well together.

[ainsoph15.livejournal.com]

Oh darling, this is beautiful! I love the movement in the piece, and the colours add real atmosphere to it. It's so evocative of those bronze and silver days by the coast when the wind is high. I love that shaft of sunlight cutting through the clouds! And of course the dogs, both earthly and airy, are gorgeous :D

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Lovely!!

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's fab. I love the wind-dog. It reminds me rather of the Storm-Cat from one of my favourite children's books (favourite for reading to the boys, I mean, it wasn't written when I was a child) "The Mousehole Cat" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mousehole-Cat-Antonia-Barber/dp/0744523532), which possibly you or Philmo might like. Some pictures here (http://users.ictp.it/~lucatell/mowzer/mouzer.shtml), though it's an old website and the pics don't seem to enlarge any more.