Artist: Wayne Cooper
Dimensions: 12×16
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Board
Website: http://waynespainting.blogspot.com/
Comments By The Artist: I am just 63 years old wednesday and started painting about 6 months ago…having never painted before..( which I think shows!) I had done years ago, some decoy carving after a course I took but don’t do it any more. The painting I will send is my 8th one and I hope my best so far. It is of a flowerpot on a mail box support from a photograph I took a month ago just down my road.
It is on a 12 X 16 canvasboard and was originally intended as just a study piece. I paint with a buddy who is a fairly accomplished painter and we almost always do the same pieces. I have never sold anything and he doesn’t sell very much but we do enjoy the camaraderie of painting together …..and some low-level competition!..lol. It is in acrylic although I hope someday to try watercolour which I really am fascinated by.
I haven’t signed or titled this painting or in fact many of the others…right now they are all stacked in the corner of my room in fact although my wife deems this one worthy of framing and putting on the wall!! I have a ‘blog-site’ where I post my pictures as they are completed for friends and family to view as many of them are thousands of miles away. I would be absolutely delighted if you would feature them sometime on your site…..I really enjoy and use your site as much as I can and have found it quite helpful in the past.
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Rich de Lorenzo on Mon, 18th Aug 2008 5:02 pm
I agree with your wife, this is frameable; the only comment would be that is is exactly centered on the canvas and all that symmetry is distracting from some really good work on the main subject
Paul McCall on Mon, 18th Aug 2008 5:06 pm
Very nice indeed I can visualize your painting being featured on a “Thinking of you card” or a magazine cover. Keep up your good work.
Terry on Mon, 18th Aug 2008 5:24 pm
I think you are doing a very good job for a beginner! I know how nice it is to paint with a friend, as I used to do the same. It is a wunderful way to learn! Keep up the good work!
Nicole Castro on Mon, 18th Aug 2008 5:27 pm
Wayne, this is a lovely painting! I very much like the vibrant, luminous color in the background.
Keep doing great work and thanks for sharing with us.
Ingrid on Mon, 18th Aug 2008 5:34 pm
Hi Wayne,
HAPPY 63 YEARS YOUNG!!!!! What a lovely painting, filled with emotion and lovely use of clean color! I think that you should frame this one, put it on the wall and enjoy it!
You mentioned that you wanted to try watercolor……..I think that you would be a “natural” at handling watercolor painting! GO FOR IT!!! In fact I thought that this was watercolor, until I read that it was acrylic!
There are just a few suggestions I would like to make for the future. The placement of the flowers in the basket is exactly in the middle of the painting. I would suggest that the placement of this focal area be up in the upper third of your canvas and over about one third from the left side. If then you would darken the background area behind these flowers, a bit, as you have it in the right side of your painting, you would have SMASHING results. You already have used a complimentary color scheme quite successfully, but in addition to this, you might add a bit of that nice dark green from the fence in that basket in the shadow area, and a bit of that red into the fence. This would connect these shapes in the composition even more. Maybe also playing down that bright green in the background in some areas would create a variety in that large shape behind the basket and fence!
All I can say, is that if I had painted my eighth painting as well as you have painted this one, I would have been THRILLED! Keep up the good work, keep painting, and thank you very much for sharing with all of us!
Ingrid
karen on Mon, 18th Aug 2008 5:52 pm
Just? Hello! this looks like pro work to me, love the loose style w/flowers, and the riot of colors. WONDERFUL
Kay on Mon, 18th Aug 2008 6:13 pm
Wonderful painting. I am 62 and just started painting so you are a real encouragement. Look forward to seeing more of your work.
Joseph P. Sobel on Mon, 18th Aug 2008 8:01 pm
Wayne, this is an aesthetically pleasing image you painted. You brushed out the background to make the pot and flowers focal and the aged wood looks fantastic. Maybe instead of concentrating on the mail box support, focus on the vines and flowers that hang over? Its just a thought I had when I looked at the background. Keep it up wayne…and 63 years old? I say 63 years experienced, right? lol
Jayne Cummins on Mon, 18th Aug 2008 8:20 pm
I love it – it is vibrant, wonderful choice of colours with just enough detail to keep the interest. Keep at it.
Jayne
Joy McKenzie on Mon, 18th Aug 2008 10:45 pm
Firstly may I wish you a happy birthday…mybe a bit belated but I do hope that you had a great day.
This painting is wonderful….I like the loosness of the flowers and the colours that you used..the brush work on the wood is fabulous…..frame it and hang it……..I agree with Ingrid regarding the placement of the focal point…this is so important in a painting.
Congratulations on a job very well done.
Joy in Australia
james on Tue, 19th Aug 2008 1:28 am
Wayne, I’m 56 yrs old and have been painting since last November. Maybe when I’m 63 I’ll be as good as you! Love the color. Suggestions by others always seem to make good sense to me.I wish I had a painting partner like you. I keep thinking I’ll join a club or take a group lesson but I lack the confidence at this point. I too have learned so much from this website. Good luck and keep painting
Valerie Sasaki on Tue, 19th Aug 2008 3:25 am
Wow! I think it is beautiful. The colors are so great , you did a wonderful job on the wood. Your wife is right, you should frame it. It would brighten up any home. Great job Wayne! I look foward to seeing more
Soroya on Tue, 19th Aug 2008 10:31 am
Wayne, I love this painting you should definately listen to your wife and hang it up for others to breath in. I personally like the central focus of the flowers on the mailbox. But then again I sometimes read other things into paintings. To me it talks of the joy of living and the cross that we sometimes bear even in the midst of the beauty of life.
Keep painting and hang your talent up. Happy 63 years young
Christy McGuire on Tue, 19th Aug 2008 12:45 pm
Hey Wayne… This painting is so bright and cheery! I love it! Great job!
Pat on Tue, 19th Aug 2008 5:28 pm
Beautiful painting. Yes you should hang it up and all of the others too. I looked at them on your blog. Have a wall just for your paintings they are wonderful.
Saso on Tue, 19th Aug 2008 6:51 pm
Great job for a beginner.
Shyam Wadwankar on Wed, 20th Aug 2008 3:52 am
Hi Wayne,
Why you made so late to ignite the spark?
Others have given good hints about composition.
Pleasant greens.
Good wishes.
Happy painting
Shyam
Juma on Wed, 20th Aug 2008 5:07 am
Wayne, I ‘m very much fascinated by your use of bright colors. I love your painting because I believe you painted the way you feel, and thus art is all about.
Amanda on Wed, 20th Aug 2008 10:26 am
Lovely vibrant colours. A painting that makes you smile…………….well done Wayne. Love your description of how and where you work. Your passion and intensity shows in your paintings, really well done. Frame them all…………….be proud. Art is about an individuals interpretation. There is no wrong or right.
John on Wed, 20th Aug 2008 11:11 pm
Nice colors. I like the little details, like the nails in the post. I think sometimes center is ok.
Mike Nelson on Sun, 24th Aug 2008 10:35 pm
Your use of complimentary colors was very good. Your composition could have been better if you had placed the image in the top one third of the canvas and then used the trailing vines to draw the viewers eye back to the basket which is your center of interest. The railing going all the way across the painting has a tendency to take the viewers eye off the canvas. You need an eye stopper on the edge to prevent this, such as the trailing vines going across the horizontal wood and trailing down the right edge of the painting obscuring the end of the horizontal post. The light source for the painting was from right to left based on the shadow on the basket. Wouldn’t the basket have thrown a shadow on the horizontal wood as well. Using shadows appropriately add interest to a painting. Your wood texture was fine and I really liked your color selection and technique for painting the basket. I’m also 63 years old but I’ve been painting for over 30 years and I do appreciate how well you did for your 8th painting. Your on the right track. Work a little more on your compositions and I think you’ll be really happy with the end results. Remember, your favorite painting is always the last one you finished, so keep painting. It’s a learning process.
Bud Sutton on Mon, 25th Aug 2008 6:14 pm
Wayne, keep it going. Im sure u probably have some others in that corner that are just as vibrant. I started painting last august and am 67….Your flower pot and fence is an inspiration. Thanks..give us some more!
FFacer on Wed, 27th Aug 2008 5:21 pm
Scent On A Fence
A floral vine-rope handing from a pot
A basket on a fence; flowers a lot
Brilliant color against a set of green
Sets up a peaceful pretty scene
Pass by, catch a whiff of floral scent
From a pot of flowers on a fence.
…………………………..ffacer…………….
Judy on Wed, 10th Sep 2008 1:12 am
Love the colours in this, its beautiful.
Kay Kinman on Wed, 6th May 2009 2:09 am
I think Wayne’s painting look almost real.
I have an original 20X16 painting “Somethings Coming” signed by Wayne Cooper. It was purchased by my mother on 4/22/1991.
Let me know if you are interested in buying.
Barbara Johnson on Tue, 29th Sep 2009 2:55 pm
Wayne…This is a spectacular painting. I have only painted a few years at the age of 73…It is a tremendous accomplishment to ’suddenly’ find this new creative expression…Wonderful!
Barbara