Brooklyn Skyline no. 9
I’ve painted this composition, based on a photograph I took from the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge several years ago, many times. There are several features of the New York City architectural landscape in this composition that strike me as emblematic the wooden water towers, fire escape stairways, and banks of residential and office windows. In this version I’ve leaned on some illustration techniques, incorporating an ink drawing and some pastel highlights with watercolor. The treatment of the sky "borrows" from a technique I’ve seen in paintings and prints by the artist and illustrator Harold John Brothers.
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Width: 14in
Bruce Washburn
I paint watercolors with a focus on the natural landscapes and distinctive urban settings of the San Francisco Bay Area, Yosemite National Park, and other locations of special importance to me.
Watercolor provides me with a perfect medium for rendering what I’ve envisioned and producing works of a type and size that are easy to share with others.
My intention is to create paintings that, during the process of conceptualization and creation, cause me to think about, and look carefully at, the subject and thereby learn something new about the world. And through that process I aim to create an image that provides the viewer with an experience of interest and a sense of comfort, especially for those with fond and familiar memories of these places.
I have a degree in Fine Arts from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. Over the last decade I have devoted my attention towards learning the ways of watercolor.
Email: btwashburn@gmail.com
Website: www.brucewashburnart.com/
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