Artist Spotlite – Shirley Evans

Soroya on Mon, 4th May 2009 4:05 pm 



Wonderful piece I love the vibrancy of the boat color

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Brenda on Mon, 4th May 2009 4:18 pm 



This is a wonderful painting. I love it. It has great impact – for a fellow Canadian at least:)

The only comment I would make is that the sky and water seem kind of flat. If the clouds in were touched with a bit of a warm colour and the water had a some bits of colour outside of the blue range I think it would have more “life” to it.

Just my thoughts – I really do like it a lot.

Jayne Cummins on Mon, 4th May 2009 8:05 pm 



Just lovely – you have really captured the scene, the boat is safely secured and the water is calm and peaceful.
I like it.
Jayne

Tammy on Mon, 4th May 2009 8:36 pm 



I can’t believe it is done in acrylic it looks so good!!! I just love the detail on the boat. Feel proud!

eileen on Tue, 5th May 2009 1:25 pm 



I love the feeling of calm you get with the blue, and the exact opposite you get from the vibrancy of the boat

eileen

Ingrid Albrecht on Tue, 5th May 2009 7:05 pm 



Hi Shirley,

What a lovely tribute to your nephew, Mark! This is a very nice painting and I am assuming that this boat has a special meaning associated with Mark.

The boat is the most important part of this painting, and one way of making it become more important is how it is placed in the painting. One way of doing this is to give us more SKY or more OCEAN. Right now your painting is almost half in half. To make the boat more important, I would use much less sky, lower the horizon, and show more ocean, moving the boat up so that the white antennae on the boat runs off the upper edge of your canvas. By doing this the sky shape is divided into more interesting negative shapes and the boat is given much more importance. The bottom area of the painting is then the water shape with the boat’s reflections…the largest largest shape in the painting. Maybe changing the time of day to get more exciting shadows of the boat in the water could tie the boat into that large water shape.

Changing the color of the sky for more drama could also be another idea that you could use!

These are just my ideas, and you, after all, are the artist who has the final word!

Thanks for sharing with all of us and HAPPY PAINTING!

Ingrid

Liz on Wed, 6th May 2009 2:55 am 



I really like this, the boat is done beautifully, and the water is so tranquil. I like the extra little details that you have done in the background it is very realistic. Liz

Ellen Lou Severs on Fri, 15th May 2009 7:23 pm 



Dear Shirley,
The only thing, I seen wrong is, I am not on that pier fishing.
Congradulations on a job well done. Now pat yourself on the back. if the water is choppy sometimes there is not a reflection. It depends on the time of day.
Ellen Lou Severs
Artist and Author of A Whisper Through Life
Published by Xlibris

Julie Blight on Sat, 16th May 2009 12:31 am 



Hi Shirley
Love your tribute to Mark, thank you for showing.

Julie

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