"Alert" Work in Progress
It started on a summer visit to the water front of Newport, Oregon in 1972. Walt took a photo of an old fishing boat, "The Alert". He said, "I would love to paint this some day." In the fall of 2011, he asked me to see if I could find the negative. Digging up a 40-year-old negative is no easy task, but I found it and scanned it. Next, Walt made a pencil scketch of it to work out values.
He decided to paint it using acrylics and prepared a hollow door for the canvas by cutting it and smearing the surface with Gesso. Next he drew a line drawing on the door.
The next photos show the paint as he lays down undercoats...
This is what the "Alert" looks like today, Feb.21, 2012. More to come...
Feb. 24
Feb. 27
Feb. 28
March 1
March 11...Revisions have started. Gesso goes on to prepare surface for repainting. The sky has already gone through a revision, but it will get more.
Finished June 2012 and hanging at the Ryan Gallery in Lincoln City, OR.
This was a very difficult painting for Walt as he was learning to paint in acrylics after a lifetime of painting in oils. Why the change? Because I developed severe asthma triggered from the oil-paint fumes. He has painted two other pics in acrylics since this one was finished and have heard him muttering,
"Man, I hate this. I really like painting in oil."
Thank you, Walt, for making the change!
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