Duke Street
Just for a change I painted this urban scene. It was a bit of a challenge not to get tied up in the regularity of rectangular shapes. Duke Street is one of the main streets in Athy, County Kildare. There is a mixture of modern and old buildings, of urban landscape in a small rural town. In Medieval times, Athy was a frontier town. The bridge here was a guarded entrance to the Pale, a fortified English area around Dublin. The expression ‘beyond the Pale’ comes from these times and referred to the ‘wild Irish’ who were beyond the control of the invading English forces.
The painting is 16″x12″ and was deliberately painted quickly (about an hour and a half) to ensure I didn’t get rapped up in the tedious details of buildings, something I am prone to do. I am still not including black on the palette, just 3 colours plus white. The restricted colour range added harmony of colour and harmony of texture was achieved by not blending the paint too much, especially in the sky.
Here is the video of the painting process. See you soon.
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Looks great! Love watching the time lapse. I just made my first time lapse video recently and it’s so neat being able to look back at the process.
I checked out your video and its great. I know it will be a good for you to see your work progressing but think how wonderful it will be for the future owner of the painting to see the process of creation. It adds something special to the painting.
I actually gave the painting to the person who commissioned it today and that was exactly what he said to me. He said it’s wonderful having the video of how it was created. I never even really considered this before. I’m going to try to do these more often.
Please do. I’m looking forward to future ‘movies’.
Love this painting!
Thank you.
Me too! The addition of urban structures gets the story-seeking imagination going.
Thank you Pierr, I’m delighted you liked.
I love your use of the term “urban scene.” This still looks like a lovely country scene with modest buildings and a lovely bridge to me. 🙂 I love the bit of history that you add here as well. Nice painting.
Thank you.
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I thought this was very nice and inspiring……..
Thank you for the rebog.