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Canson XL series (140lb)paper, Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, color, drawing, expressionism, expressionist, expressive, Georgia, Greene County Georgia, Location, Media and Subjects, nature, Painting, process, Quote, Scenic Designer, Scull Shoals, Skull Shoals, walk in the N. Georgia woods, walk in the N.Georgia woods, watercolor, Watkinsville Georgia
Scull Shoals 03 …peek through the window …Warehouse/Store
When you train as a Set Designer and Scenic Designer you learn that the most important contribution you can make to any production is to help establish a sense of place, time and mood. I’ve carried this with me through my paintings and drawings. Some of the questions I always ask myself when I start a painting is what are these elements; how are they inherently expressed in the view and how do I express them in my painting.
With Skull Shoals 03 I didn’t want to play into the “spooky” connotations associated with the idea of a ghost town. I wanted to work with the bright high sky morning when I visited. The sun shone brilliantly through the crumbling arched doorway and cast a blaze across the floorless ground with the walls casting a shadow.
“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”
Alberto Giacometti, 1901 – 1966, Swiss, sculptor, painter, draughtsman, printmaker
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