The Boardwalk
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This is the last of my Rainy Days in Melbourne series I have titled Boardwalk. The painting is 50cm x 60cm oil on canvas. $830.00. My process for this painting was the same for all the series, and that is, I start with a number of photos of the same area. In the painting the main people were not in any of the photos, as a matter of fact, they were just out of my head. And there was no rain and little reflections on the day, so what you see is what my mind eye saw.
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Stephen Simmons
Whatever I decide I liked to paint I’m always looking to capture the soul of the subject matter, that something that connects me with the picture. It doesn’t matter what the scene is: landscape, people, an object, as long as I’ve captured that invisible quality that made me want to paint it in the…
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