Lakeside Cove

Lakeside Cove artwork by Cecile Grace Charles

This is a wonderful shoreline sunset image of a lake cove near my home on Lake Spokane, formerly called Long Lake. This is past the little town of Tumtum, WA.  

The artwork is all about the relationship to the sky.. On canvas, I have captured that low light that happens near dusk that makes the trees glow. This is the view from a boat. The dashes in this artwork are a shorter version of the longer strokes in other artworks of mine.

Nature in itself is the real artwork, but being able to pick up the nuances of a real place is exciting for an artist. Certainly I add my own style, vision, interpretation, but infusing reality into it is the technical part of painting is the key here. I like drawing closer to the real image but I like to present it in a manner that is not quite reality. You can see the grass which is two different greens to give it dimention. The water does in fact look like this when the wind is blowing, the reflection of the sky in the water. All bring a sense of peace. I draw you into the artwork by pulling your eye up the creek as it dumps into the lake.

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