Hello Hive and On-Chain Art Community,
I am new here. You'd find me writing mostly about travel and architecture but while I was gathering my tools to start an oil painting that I promised a friend for his birthday, I came across this artwork that was lingering in my attic. The attic holds all of the canvases that piled up wrapped in cartons. These canvases were the products of my love and hate relationship with Art.
My husband suggested why not share it on the Hive since I documented the process. After allowing this thought to simmer, here it is. Please allow me to share with you the process of creating By The Sea 1. I completed it while we were all quarantined at home early this year.
I received helpful criticism from a realist artist friend that I should not rely on the white background and allow my subject to build up against a medium-toned base. To start from medium-dark to lightest. I took this advice in mind for future dabbles in oil. Please excuse me, in this case, I did the opposite. My reason for it was to capture the sand by using a lighter background.
By the Sea 1
30 cm x 40 cm Oil Painting
This was a captured moment that gives me joy watching my nephew and niece play with sand at Al Mamzar Beach in Dubai many years ago.
There is so much to learn from children. Their enthusiasm and inability to overthink and worry about the future, especially at such an uncertain time. There is so much peace in being child-like, living day to day, and always in the present.
Hope you enjoyed it. You'll find some of my experimental work on Instagram and if I get to complete the second part of the By the Sea series then I might post it here too. Fingers crossed that I finish it. Thank you for reaching this far on my post.