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BRIAN MAHIEU - Cape Flattery - Spring Afternoon, Oil on Canvas, 60 X 48 X 1.5 inches

BRIAN MAHIEU - Cape Flattery - Spring Afternoon, Oil on Canvas, 60 X 48 X 1.5 inches

$10,500.00 USD
$10,500.00 USD
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Brian Mahieu captures Cape Flattery in stunning atmosphere. See process and detail photos. In the artist’s own words:

This large painting evokes the sparkling sunlight of a late spring day at Cape Flattery. On this day it was low tide but just beginning to turn.  Many rocks were revealed with a view into the crystalline water in the foreground revealing submerged boulders, seaweed and kelp.  I loved painting the transparency in the foreground transitioning to the opaque slabs of color in the distance.
The painting began with a vibrant magenta imprimatura which glitters through in places. This influenced every subsequent color mixture, setting the palette for this piece. It is impossible to capture the range of blues I used in this painting with a photo. I probably used a dozen different blue pigments including: French Ultramarine, cobalt blue, cobalt teal, Bonnard blue, manganese blue, pthalo blue, cerulean blue, king’s blue and myriad mixtures of analagous hues. The water in this piece modulates through the colors of a peacock’s tail with the kelpy-bronze and deep, teal blue-green, purple and celadon colors in the shallow water with more lavender/ultramarine shades seen through the sunlit foliage on the left. As the light spills past the sea stacks on the right, the colors are more lavender blue contrasted with turquoise, cobalt teal and a periwinkle blue (that is lost in this photo) Suffice to say it is a feast of blues.

This was a challenging motif and I spent over two weeks on the painting and used many tubes of paint to achieve the heavy impasto paint surface. The piece has had a warm reception and I am thrilled with the sparkle of the lemon and chartreuse foliage against the sea of iridescent blues.

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