Artist: Kathy Karas
Location: Australia
Title: “BREAKFAST AT THE BEACH”
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30″x 60″
Website: http://www.artwhatson.com/kathykaras/ and http://www.kathy-karas-artist.com/
Comments From The Artist: Here is a painting that I completed in June this year. It is an oil painting of our local beach and a place that I visit often . I had just finished breakfast one morning and was walking back to my car when I happened to look back and was captured by the sight of the kiosk with the umbrella’s and people enjoying a lazy saturday morning by the beach. I am an Australian artist and live on the beautiful south coast of NSW just south of Sydney.
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Lynn Marlowe on Mon, 15th Sep 2008 7:17 pm
Lovely. I feel the waves just by looking!
Roger Cummiskey on Mon, 15th Sep 2008 7:17 pm
Nice detailed painting.
Jayne Cummins on Mon, 15th Sep 2008 7:57 pm
Hi Kathy
Just love it – looks very much where I live – looking over Brighton beach, in Christchurch in New Zealand, complete with large tree and kiosk cafe. You’ve captured the scene to perfection,. Well done
Jayne
June Smith on Mon, 15th Sep 2008 8:12 pm
This is absolutely beautiful
Looks more like a photograph
Very nice work
June
Mary on Mon, 15th Sep 2008 8:25 pm
I really like the painting. Much detail! Just my style. Keep up the good work.
Valerie Sasaki on Mon, 15th Sep 2008 9:17 pm
Beautiful! I really feel like I’m there. The colors are soft and I can tell the people are relaxed. Your waves are excellent. You did a great job capturing the mood.
Pat on Mon, 15th Sep 2008 9:37 pm
Very nice work. The sky and the water are Beautiful. You did a great job, it really looks like morning with the long shadows coming from Mom and the little one. Lovely painting.
Wayne Cooper on Mon, 15th Sep 2008 9:47 pm
Excellent Painting.
It’s just the style and quality that i am aiming for…..but i’m a long, long way from this.
Beautiful!!!
wilma on Mon, 15th Sep 2008 9:55 pm
beautiful soft colors
Ingrid on Mon, 15th Sep 2008 11:11 pm
Hi Kathy,
You have done a very nice job with this painting, capturing the mood and atmosphere of the area. Your attention to detail and use of color is exceptional.
There are just a few “tiny” areas on which I would like to comment. The lower right side of the tree trunk is a very straight line, almost forming a right angle with the ground. This shape seems unnatural and distracting, and a broken edge on the trunk or change in the trunk’s shape would seem more natural.
Traveling up the right side of the trunk, the roof of the KIOSK is tangent to the trunk a little below the half way point. By placing the tree more to the right so that it takes a bite out of the shape of the KIOSK, OR by placing the tree more to the left so that the negative shapes between the KIOSK and the trunk are more visible, would make for a better composition.
My last comment has to do with aerial perspective. The shape of the green grassy area located above the top umbrella (almost in the center of the painting next to the waves), and in the lower third, the cement walkway sandwiched in between the beach shape and the green grassy shape, I think are a bit too hard edged to be located that far back. Some broken edges or softer edges used in these two places, as you have used in your foreground grassy area, would solve this and have these shapes sit farther back. As they are now, they come forward for being that far away. Maybe also a little lighter value in the shadow area of the curved cement shape would help to keep those shapes in the distance. By doing this, the KIOSK becomes much more IMPORTANT and emphasized in your painting. When I squint down and look at your painting, that curved cement shape detracts from the nice job that you did on the KIOSK.
By looking at your painting, I would want to visit this area and explore the beach. You did a FANTASTIC job communicating this to all of us! Thank you for sharing and KEEP PAINTING!
Ingrid
Terry on Tue, 16th Sep 2008 3:39 am
I think you did a great job. It conveys such a relaxed atmosphere.
Bernie Rosage Jr. on Tue, 16th Sep 2008 12:14 pm
I can see why you visit this often… lovely scene… you captured it very well.
Bernie
Soroya on Tue, 16th Sep 2008 12:41 pm
Wonderful serene painting makes me want to be in the kiosk by the sea enjoying the view. ~Thanks for sharing your talent
John on Tue, 16th Sep 2008 12:49 pm
Nice job. If I could do so good, I would be a happy man.
Dr, Derek P. Blake on Tue, 16th Sep 2008 1:35 pm
Nicely done, makes me want to buy an icecream!
Peter on Tue, 16th Sep 2008 4:31 pm
Great painting! I love the way you have understated the figures. The one in the doorway is particularly well done.
Nicole Castro on Tue, 16th Sep 2008 5:29 pm
Beautiful! Very well done. I love the colors of the scene, the way you captured the light, and the details of the kiosk. You’re lucky to live in such an ispirational place – I wish I was there right now! Thank you for sharing.
Deborah Stinson on Tue, 16th Sep 2008 5:50 pm
Beautiful.
James on Wed, 17th Sep 2008 12:43 am
A lovely scene and a lovely painting! It must be awesome to see in person being that it is quite a large size at 30″ x 60″. I would be interested to know how much time with a brush in your hand you invested in this piece. I say with a brush in your hand because I have found that when I paint, there is my painting time and my looking time. Sometimes they are about the same. I paint one day and then study it the next day I critique my work to that point and then plan my attack for the next day. It is almost an obsession. When I’m not staring at the painting, I’m seeing it in my minds eye, thinking about it worrying about it. When I find no need (obsession) to look anymore, then I know I am finished and I can sign it. (which to me means, that’s it! no more painting.) Sorry to go off on my soapbox, but I saw myself in your work and was inspired
Amanda on Wed, 17th Sep 2008 7:49 am
Fabulous detail and painted beautifully. Evokes childhood memories and feelings. To me is says, light, happy, social, peace…………I can hear the murmur of the sea, hear the chatter of the people, feel the sun on my face…………..thank you for sharing this wonderful painting!!
Ralph Che on Wed, 17th Sep 2008 4:06 pm
Great patnting. The perspective view is nice and the beauty is inviting to anyone who would like to go into the world of painting