Over North Joshua Tree

[Artyczar]

Here's the third in this series. It's oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches. (Been busy! )

 

[snoball]

WOW! So much work goes into these! Reminds me of satellite images from Google.

 

[Artyczar]

That's where the references basically come from. Thanks sno.

 

[Enyaw]

I find it interesting that all of that is going on but the piece has a tranquil feeling. Nothing out of place. Well done and in keeping with your last one.

 

[P. Barrie]

Engaging and fun to look at. Harmonies of color and layout. Love the grays.

 

[Artyczar]

Thank you Patrick and Wayne. I appreciate both of your comments, as they mean a lot to me.

I am a little troubled that the tans and ochres (background colors) are reading gray. I know my photography skills are pretty bad, but my monitor is calibrated, and the colors are close-ish on my computer screen. So, I wonder what I can do to remedy this.

 

[Donna T]

Another terrific addition to your series! All of those little dots add interest and I can appreciate your careful placement of them. Plus, who doesn't love a painting with "little pink houses for you and me."

 

[GrantCee]

Thank you Patrick and Wayne. I appreciate both of your comments, as they mean a lot to me.

I am a little troubled that the tans and ochres (background colors) are reading gray. I know my photography skills are pretty bad, but my monitor is calibrated, and the colors are close-ish on my computer screen. So, I wonder what I can do to remedy this.

It appears you have mixed lighting conditions (daylight coming in from the left, falling off to more ambient room light to the right — the color balance shifts from right to left.) Limiting to one light source will help.

The color space of the picture will affect its reproduction. For net reproduction it's best to working in the "least common denominator" sRGB color space. Generic RGB will often not result in consistent colors across all monitors.

 

[Artyczar]

Thank you Donna!

Grant, yes, I know I need to take it outside in the shade. I am not sure that will fix it. This is a quick shot of it while it is still wet on the easel inside my office studio. Here is a better shot of a smaller piece to show color:

 

[Artyczar]

Here it is slightly more real, but I still need to let it dry and take it out in the sun.

 

[Enyaw]

I feel for you. I doubt I ever get the real thing in a photo. So many subtle variances that end up being lumped by the camera. My camera doesn't like muted green for some reason and turns it to an ugly mud. I do like the latest shot though as it comes across on my monitor as leaning to green instead of tan and that makes the res of the colors more dynamic.

 

[joe1It]

wonderful

 

[Terri]

Beautiful. I love this series!!!

Brad was an aerial photographer and these speak to me on many levels. The perspective, the palette- all of it is wonderful. Yay!!

 

[Bongo]

Love this one too,.. more please.

 

[laika]

When I worked in the darkroom of an aerial photographer (pre-Google Earth), people often asked if we had coverage of their home, business, hunting camp, whatever. I think you might have a similar situation, IOW, people would pay to have a cool aerial view painting of their homes or what have you.

 

[john]

Fun to look at. Is that a stream bed winding through it? I like how you distributed the colors of the houses. I assume you arranged that.

 

[ams]

Very nice job on this. It would be especially appealing to people who live in the area and recognize where it is.

 

[Artyczar]

Thank you friends! I appreciate all your wonderful comments and support. Now that it's leaning kinda green, that's not especially great either. Ha ha ha. It's supposed to be very tan. Desert-y colors, dotted in browns and green trees and shrubs.

Anyway, John, yes, that is a dry stream bed. There are a ton of those out here.

All these are based on real maps, but then I change them up for aesthetic purposes, add and remove rooftops and shapes of houses, etc. I guess the real maps are just kind of suggestions or inspiration because I don't use them very literally, I just begin there. I arrange the colors so that there aren't too many of the same next to each other. I wanted them to be "balanced." I also wanted them to read a bit as abstract works as well since I can never make up my mind as to which kind of style I want to do, so I like to melt the two styles together.

 

[Aspenman]

Wow I would not have the patience for that much detail - I take my hat off to U

 

[Artyczar]

Thanks Aspenman. If you only knew how impatient I really was!