BRUCE DOCKER PAINTINGS: AFTERNOON SUN 2

Sunday, June 12, 2011

AFTERNOON SUN 2

LANDSCAPE

Acrylic on plywood - 7" x 5" - (C)BruceDocker,2011

$100.00

With the sun shining directly into my eyes, the colors and shapes
are really simplified and the shadows and highlights are extreme.

Contemporary American Art
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6 comments:

Rick Nilson said...: what have you been doing? I lost track of Bruce Docker.; June 12, 2011 at 5:37 PM
How to oil paint shadows said...: Your painting entitled afternoon sun is great!; June 12, 2011 at 7:54 PM
lyn said...: I love long shadows! How do you back your linen paper acrylics?
Cool site, daily painters amaze me!
Continued success!; June 13, 2011 at 12:26 PM
Bruce Docker said...: Hi Rick - Drama; June 13, 2011 at 7:18 PM
Bruce Docker said...: Thanks "How to...", glad you stopped by.; June 13, 2011 at 7:19 PM
Bruce Docker said...: Thanks Lyn, Appreciate the visit.; June 13, 2011 at 8:05 PM

How I am, the way I am.

I come from a long line of artists. My father drew the original series of cigarette smoking woodpeckers used in all traditional tattoo shops today. My maternal grandmother was a professional artist who could paint the highlights of a vase with the devastation of a paper cut to the eye. And of course my grandfather was the infamous paint-by-numbers artist and rum runner of Kansas City in the 1940’s. I have tried to combine all I learned from them into a cohesively rambling style.

My formal training includes years of study with the Canadian art God, John Nagy, developer of the audacious Learn to Draw Kit. We met every Tuesday afternoon at 3:30.

Believing in total respect for my materials I once used an entire box of Crayola 64’s without breaking a single crayon, I covered my driveway in Scotch tape to protect my sidewalk chalk drawings from the rain, and the cloth of my canvas is made only from the wool of free range sheep.