HMS Indefatigable
HMS Pickle
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Frederic Edwin Church - Icebergs
The Iceberg
The Iceberg, 1891, 20 x 30 inches
The Icebergs, 1861, 112 inches wide
Alfred Thompson Bricher - American, 1837 - 1908
The Landing at Bailey Island, 15 x 32 inches
New England Coast - Sailboats
Castle Rock, Marblehead, 1878
Low tide, Grand Manan Island
Headlands
Rippling Sea, Manchester
Seacape with Dory and Sailboats
The Coast at Grand Manan
Whitehead, Casco Bay
A common problem with seascapes or beach scenes is lopsidedness - the structural weight of shore elements such as rocks and cliffs, is difficult to balance with water alone.
The main lesson to learn from Bricher's work is the compositional trick of using a mass of cloud, and or boat and or white foam of a breaking wave, to balance rocks/cliff on other side of painting. The boat need not be of equal size to the rocks to have equal compositional weight. This is because the comparatively blank area of the sea makes the boat stand out as a point of interest.
Sunset on Bailey Island
Sunset over the Bay
Summer Day at Grand Manan
Seascape
Seascape with Sunset
Moonrise, Coast of Maine
Grand Summer, Grand Manan
Brundith Head, Grand Manan
Morning at Saskonnet, Rhode Island
White Island Lighthouse, Isle of Shoals
Light Winds
Grand Manan
Off Grand Manan
Sailing off the Coast
Coastal Scene
Coastal Scene 2
Coastal View
Crashing Waves
Along the Coast
Baily's Island, Maine
Breaking Surf
By the Shore
See a few more at:
http://landscapesoftheself.blogspot.com/search?q=bricher
Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) USA, born Germany
Seal Rock
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Home of the Rainbow, Horseshoe Falls,
16.75 x 22.25 inches
(Not a marine painting as such but captures the spirit of water)
The Shore of the Turquoise Sea
Friday, June 20, 2008
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