"WW2 Wreck Dive" is a 24”x30” painting on canvas, in acrylic, pearl and oil paint. This painting is of an octopus floating by a jellyfish, with a WW2 wreck in the background.
The painting started as a simple wash of background color. I left a white “hole” at the top to create a feeling of the sun streaming in. Towards the bottom I made it dark, to push back the plane. Painting the plane was a challenge; to get across that feeling of the deep sea requires that the colors be exactly right, and that is the right shade of blue-green, and the right way that ocean water pushes colors to gray in the distance.
The jellyfish was also a long time in getting it right; they are so ephemeral, translucent, iridescent; they require patience, and patience slows things down. But going at it slowly in many layers of washes can make things muddy and unpleasant. That’s where the pearlescent paint helps.
Finding remains of a plane is such a rare poignant encounter, when scuba diving. Someone was in that plane, and you don’t know if they parachuted out, or not. It’s makes you realize how things that at one time actually dominated the world are now rusted relics, that nature has repurposed as reef builders. Fish love them, it gives them something to hide in. And corals generate around them, if it’s not too deep down in the dark.
This is a mid-sized picture that has a subtle draw to it, if you are inclined to like ocean creatures , and undersea light in all its streaming glory.
An original oil, acrylic and pearlescent painting; varnished, on stretched canvas, 24”x30”, wired and ready to hang. Unframed.
$9500
Buy it today, and truly make my day. I know you will be pleased when it’s hanging on your wall. If you don’t like it, send it back to me, and I will refund the purchase price. I mean that sincerely.
Thanks for your time and consideration. -Mark Lindquist
"WW2 Wreck Dive" is a 24”x30” painting on canvas, in acrylic, pearl and oil paint. This painting is of an octopus floating by a jellyfish, with a WW2 wreck in the background.
The painting started as a simple wash of background color. I left a white “hole” at the top to create a feeling of the sun streaming in. Towards the bottom I made it dark, to push back the plane. Painting the plane was a challenge; to get across that feeling of the deep sea requires that the colors be exactly right, and that is the right shade of blue-green, and the right way that ocean water pushes colors to gray in the distance.
The jellyfish was also a long time in getting it right; they are so ephemeral, translucent, iridescent; they require patience, and patience slows things down. But going at it slowly in many layers of washes can make things muddy and unpleasant. That’s where the pearlescent paint helps.
Finding remains of a plane is such a rare poignant encounter, when scuba diving. Someone was in that plane, and you don’t know if they parachuted out, or not. It’s makes you realize how things that at one time actually dominated the world are now rusted relics, that nature has repurposed as reef builders. Fish love them, it gives them something to hide in. And corals generate around them, if it’s not too deep down in the dark.
This is a mid-sized picture that has a subtle draw to it, if you are inclined to like ocean creatures , and undersea light in all its streaming glory.
An original oil, acrylic and pearlescent painting; varnished, on stretched canvas, 24”x30”, wired and ready to hang. Unframed.
$9500
Buy it today, and truly make my day. I know you will be pleased when it’s hanging on your wall. If you don’t like it, send it back to me, and I will refund the purchase price. I mean that sincerely.
Thanks for your time and consideration. -Mark Lindquist
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