Green Drawbridge,
California Delta
Robert Winter, 2003 

Acrylic on Sheet Canvas
16" x 20"

Giclee Print:   $350
On Sheet Canvas, Unframed

Framed Original:  Not currently for sale

Artist's Notes

A lot of the lyricism of the Delta comes from the interplay between land and water, and bridges are an important component of that interplay.

This is basically a sleepy hinterland, but the drawbridges are needed so that oceangoing ships bound for halfway around the world can pass through.  That contrast is something else I like about the Delta.

One of the reasons the colors appear so saturated in this painting is that I’ve used a kind of “tilted color wheel” technique.  At the upper end of the light-to-dark value register, things tend to become more yellowish, while at the lower end, things tend to become more purplish.  This keeps vibrancy in colors like the green of the bridge, which in more conventional depiction techniques would tend to simply become washed-out at the light end and muted at the dark end.

 

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