About five months ago, I posted an image of a painting I was working on of Cathedral Mountain southeast of Marfa, Texas. Now, five months and about eight hours of painting time later, the thing actually is to that point where I'm going to say "it's finished".
I think I offered prints of the painting to a few people once it was done and I'm thinking I'll have the prints made this week and will mail some out if those who were interested will remind me who they are and where to send one.
Such joy at seeing a true talented person's oeuvre.
Well done my friend !
Derek
Like it and I'm still interested to add to my set.
Thanks
Thanks, Derek. I'm sure this looks exactly like a typical Ontario landscape. Aside from the lack of snow, that is.
> Like it and I'm still interested to add to my set.
You're in luck, Dave. I have your address.
Thank you. Christmas again!
Van Gogh was not a Post Impressionist
At least that's what I've heard discussed.
He actually was a realist. He just saw things differently.
How would you describe your own approach to depiction?
Does this painting reflect what you see or what you want others to see?
I mean, is this how the world looks to you?
And why can't we see your other ear?
Don
p.s. nice painting, though
Van Gogh was not a Post Impressionist
> I mean, is this how the world looks to you?
Well, the thing about being a land surveyor is that when I look at the landscape, it is through eyes that have spent long days for decades under Texas skies. The fact about that landscape is that when you are on the ground looking through miles of air on a day with any amount of sun at all in any season, the odds are that the earth will seem to be boiling off in convective eddies into the sky, as if the miles of catclaw acacia, cactus, yucca, and sparse range grasses are dissolving. What rises above it through the higher air miles away will seem more distinct and, oddly, closer.
So, while I thought about carefully painting various plants in the foreground, it seemed truer to render them in the blur of the hot afternoon, a sort of undifferentiated rising mass. I thought briefly about working in the design of the strange, elongated figures that appear in the ancient Indian rock art in the Trans-Pecos, but decided to try to evoke the spirit of the place more directly.
Wonderful work, Mr McMillan. Once again I say that you must be Maynard Dixon reincarnated-- although you make those long views and detail studies of the Southwestern USA delightfully your own. Thanks for sharing these paintings with us. Someday, when I can afford the proper appreciation for it, I hope to have a signed McMillan print here in my home.
> Someday, when I can afford the proper appreciation for it, I hope to have a signed McMillan print here in my home.
If you're a fan of Maynard Dixon's work, there's no need to wait. Just let me know where to send it and I'd be glad to forward a print of that one (and probably at least one other that comes to mind) at the extremely affordable price of free.
I don't know whether the beerleg email function is working, but if you send your address to:
kentmcm_AT_swbell_DOT_net (removing the space characters), it should get to me.
The prints are 11x14, which means that they fit into standard frames. I personally prefer to frame them with spacer strips to hold the glass off the surface of the print, rather than use a mat and that is how they are formated. I think it gives a result closer to the painting.
very nice Kent. just sent you an email.
I received mine this past Friday, thanks Kent!
I noticed your signature seems almost holographic, with "Kent" visible at one angle, and "McMillan" visible from another. Admittedly I haven't taken a real close look at it yet, but how was this accomplished? Did you have these printed at Millers?
