Touring Beacon Hill~ Finding Order in Chaos
Touring Beacon Hill, oil study by Melody Phaneuf
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Light and shadow create intriguing visual patterns. Outdoors, light and shadow are in constant motion. The sun’s passage endlessly changes pattern, color, and textural appearance.
When beginning to paint from a complex scene, I look for light and shadow shapes that have an interlocking pattern and try to establish this before it changes. Much has to be committed to memory and adjusted while the array of surface texture and variation in color is handled.
Touring Beacon Hill combined these compositional challenges with the entrance of a tour group into the picture plane. The position of the figures was chosen to move the eye through the composition and balance opposing shapes of color and value.
Based on the richness of a complex visual environment, Touring Beacon Hill is a scene that could have easily devolved into visual chaos. It is the abstract pattern of light and shadow that gives order to the picture.
Touring Beacon Hill, oil study by Melody Phaneuf
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Boston Artist, Melody Phaneuf is well known for her evocative still life, landscape, and portrait paintings. Her paintings are regularly on view at The Guild of Boston Artists, 162 Newbury Street; at Fenway Studios, Boston by appointment; and North Shore Art in Gloucester from May through October. Phaneuf ‘s paintings have been exhibited at The National Arts Club in New York City, Galerie Herouet in Paris, and with Art du Monde, in Japan.
Melody The Artist Home, founded with photographer and color specialist, Martha DiMeo, features Phaneuf’s original oil paintings on tumbled marble tile murals and beverage coasters, fine art prints, and handmade note cards.
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Beautiful! You captured exactly how it felt when I visited.
Thanks, Susan. I hope you’ll visit the studio next time you’re in Boston~