Fishing Shack Buoys
20x16 oil
This buoy painting proved to be a challenge. The fading clapboards, along with the variety of weathered buoys and shadows took more time and problem solving than usual. For this composition, I snapped a reference photo of buoys hanging on a New England fishing shack. The original photo had a few nets hanging in back of and around the buoys, which I decided to leave out because it was too busy-looking. Taking the net out allowed me to showcase the shadows and sharp edges of the buoys. Then I looked through my other buoy reference photos and took out the ones I didn't like in the original photo and replaced them with other buoys from around the New England coast.
Like always, I like to study the chipped, fading paint, scratches and numbers of the buoys I paint. It's interesting to think about the years they have spent in the ocean, on boats or hanging in the sun, rain and weather on a fishing shack like this one.