“Hummer At Dawn” is one of my more easily executed hummingbird paintings. I wanted to make a faint, foggy rendering of a hummingbird. And it worked, I think. But what happened was my natural predilection to paint up the colors of the heads and bodes was… lost in the fog. I would paint it up, and it would look wrong. Wipe it off, start over. Again, same result. So the picture becomes what it wants to be. The desired mood takes over. The picture doesn’t want to be overworked. Or high in chroma. Just… foggy. Misty. Vague.
“Hummer At Dawn” is a painting series I started a some years ago, and still continues. At the time, these 16” x 20” paintings were small sized for me. I had just wound down a series of much larger pictures, that were about the American west. (That theme is another story, and some day I’ll put those pictures up for sale.)
But for this series, the small size was a result of a shoulder injury that prevented any movement in my left arm, my painting arm. As to the subject matter, I have always been fascinated by the hummingbird; its unique wing wave pattern (more like a rotary helicopter doing a figure-8,than typical birds, that flap up and down), their coloring, the whirring sound they make.
An original oil, acrylic and pearlescent painting, on stretched canvas, 16” x 20”, wired and ready to hang. Unframed.
$1925
Buy it today, I know you will be pleased when it’s hanging on your wall.
Thanks for your time, and consideration. -Mark Lindquist
“Hummer At Dawn” is one of my more easily executed hummingbird paintings. I wanted to make a faint, foggy rendering of a hummingbird. And it worked, I think. But what happened was my natural predilection to paint up the colors of the heads and bodes was… lost in the fog. I would paint it up, and it would look wrong. Wipe it off, start over. Again, same result. So the picture becomes what it wants to be. The desired mood takes over. The picture doesn’t want to be overworked. Or high in chroma. Just… foggy. Misty. Vague.
“Hummer At Dawn” is a painting series I started a some years ago, and still continues. At the time, these 16” x 20” paintings were small sized for me. I had just wound down a series of much larger pictures, that were about the American west. (That theme is another story, and some day I’ll put those pictures up for sale.)
But for this series, the small size was a result of a shoulder injury that prevented any movement in my left arm, my painting arm. As to the subject matter, I have always been fascinated by the hummingbird; its unique wing wave pattern (more like a rotary helicopter doing a figure-8,than typical birds, that flap up and down), their coloring, the whirring sound they make.
An original oil, acrylic and pearlescent painting, on stretched canvas, 16” x 20”, wired and ready to hang. Unframed.
$1925
Buy it today, I know you will be pleased when it’s hanging on your wall.
Thanks for your time, and consideration. -Mark Lindquist
