Artist: Anita Lee
Location: Originally From California, Now Living In Chapala, Jalisco Mexico
Title: “Boats on Lake Chapala”
Dimensions: 36×24
Medium: Pastel On Board
Website: http://www.anitalee.net
Comments From The Artist: I am a board member of the Ajijic Society of the Arts where we try to create and nurture a community for all mediums of the arts in the Chapala region. The membership is primarialy comprised of Americans and Canadians with a few Mexicans who are always welcome even though the meetings tend to be conducted in English.
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Lynn Marlowe on Wed, 27th Aug 2008 8:00 pm
Water, hills and reflections nicely done. Especially like the texture of the bushes/trees.
karen on Wed, 27th Aug 2008 8:41 pm
very well done
Kay on Wed, 27th Aug 2008 9:54 pm
Marvelous pastel. Gentle and peaceful. I love it.
carolyn Bishop on Wed, 27th Aug 2008 10:18 pm
Wonderful, wonderful, Anita!
Valerie Sasaki on Wed, 27th Aug 2008 10:55 pm
very peaceful, I like the colors. The light and shadows are very well done. Beautiful.
Joy McKenzie on Wed, 27th Aug 2008 11:32 pm
This painting in pastel is brilliant….the boats stand out so well…thanks for sharing such a lovely peaceful work
farzana on Wed, 27th Aug 2008 11:45 pm
very bright and beautiful – the dried twigs coming out of the water really stand out . The look of the whole painting is very calm and bright – very beautiful.
Wayne Cooper on Thu, 28th Aug 2008 1:05 am
Beautiful work!!…I especially admire the reflections…..keep it up!
Jayne Cummins on Thu, 28th Aug 2008 5:07 am
Hi Anita – Just love it, so peaceful yet with the boats there it makes one think of where they are going, etc. I like a painting that stirs the imagination. Beautifully painted. Lovely work.
Jayne
Julie Blight on Thu, 28th Aug 2008 9:35 am
Hi Anita – Love your Pastel, beautifully painted.
John on Thu, 28th Aug 2008 4:39 pm
Very kool looking place. I like it.
Soroya on Fri, 29th Aug 2008 12:00 pm
I ove the pastels and the shadows on the water. This is a wonderfully tranquil painting
Joseph Sobel on Fri, 29th Aug 2008 7:06 pm
Pastel on board? That’s really interesting. What kind of board and was the application of pastel efficient? This drawing/painting is well drafted.
Francisco Salvado on Sat, 30th Aug 2008 1:59 pm
I like everything in the painting except the colour of the boats. They are too much red, a little agressive I feel. But this is a matter of taste and does not demerit the paint work which I quite admire.
Juma on Sun, 31st Aug 2008 4:18 am
I love the painting, It has been well done and in particular the red boat and the green bush, comp[lement each other and creating an axciting centre of interest.
Shyam Wadwankar on Mon, 1st Sep 2008 4:13 am
Anita,
Amazing work in pastel.
Shyam
Ingrid on Wed, 3rd Sep 2008 10:20 pm
Hi Anita,
Nice work with your pastel painting! Good feeling of a peaceful setting.
I do have a few comments. I like the red boats, but to connect them more to the painting, some vibrant strokes of green in the boats would connect them to the greens around them.
The one thick dark stick on the left side of the boats seems to be distracting me from the boats because of the dark value of the stick against the lighter value of the water. Maybe move this stick somewhere behind the boats or make it part of a grouping of sticks to bring the eye back into the painting from the left.
I really like how you added the red throughout your painting, and is so doing, you integrated this color throughout. With a little green added in strong complementary accents within the boats themselves, the connection would be complete.
Thanks for sharing this lovely painting with us. Keep painting!
Ingrid
Saso on Wed, 10th Sep 2008 9:57 am
Nice pastel.