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I started painting with watercolours in 1976 with a set of pans that I had left over from high school. I've always loved the shapes and colours of old vehicles as they settle in for the long rust. I especially enjoy creating scenes using characters I have collected over the years. These paintings are from my imagination. Check out the sales blog under "Links and Friends".
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- Runs Like a Deere
- 55 Dead or Alive?
- Leaning House
- Wreck and a House
- Took the Kids to School
- Landlocked
- Abandoned
- Fly Opener 2
- Reserved Parking
- We Were Young Cars Once
- Pick the Pickup
- You Pick'em I Won't Argue
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- Go Ahead We'll Catch Up
- Beached
- Jackson's Barn Fresh
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- Ron Morrison
- Watercolour is my medium and old things are my subjects. These paintings are for sale. My Email is on my profile page. Bink here:
12 comments:
The soft focus adds a realistic quality, like I just woke up, and the car was sitting there, saying, "hey little guy, ya had a bad fall there."
Hey, I recognize this character! Here, he has the look of being in the sun too long... all bleached out, but with sunburned cheeks.
this one has a more jagged look to it. i really like the very front of the car. Looks sharp like if you touched it you would get cut...
Thanks Grimm, I used a cheap piece of
paper and a different palette which might account for the softer focus.
Thanks Liz, I painted this character dozens of times, its really not about the cars so much as it is having a place to play with watercolour. It amazes me how many times I can paint the same damn thing and how different it comes out. Thats the main way I learn.
Thanks N.N., you have to watch for sharp stuff on old cars cuz it will cut you.
I like the simplification of your shapes and loose approach. Presents a fresh, spontaneous work with impact. Nicely done Ron.
Hi Ron -
I'm doing fine..who 'bout you? I like this painting. WHen I was first starting out I thought I shouldn't paint the same subject over agaian but not I'm older and wiser. Or maybe that's older and wider...
Thanks W.K.,the w/cs are free to play a little.
Cara, I didn't set out to be a painter. I just loved the old cars. I was going to restore one but lived in an apartment. I had some photos of the potential restoration project. Wasn't working much, sat down to paint one of the photos. Soon I was fascinated by the process. But it took years of on again off again painting before I could paint easily and fast. But I can do things with wawa that I would never have been able to do
without a favourite subject that I did endlessly. It freed me up to paint. I can do magical things with watercolours that sometimes get lost because people are too busy worrying about the fact that I paint cars. If they look they can see that I can paint other things. But more importantly I use watercolours my own way. These are old paintings. I'm just feeding the Daily Painters.
Freedom of expression here. Colour, form, composition - everything sings freedom in this one. And I agree about the sunburned cheeks. That's a good one. :o)
Thanks B.J., it is an interesting thing about the loose/tight dichotomy.
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