Social media is all about sharing thoughts, ideas and images with the outside world. Making art is all about the same things, in some ways art was the original social media along with the printing press. Recently I posted the painting of Brazil, here on the blog and on Facebook. The Brazilians on Facebook seemed to like it, and one commented that the colours really capture the feel of the North. I get comments all the time, but this one was cool because this series is an attempt to capture the look and feel of a landscape using books and the internet. With Instagram now, people see me painting on the street and I can direct them to my account if they want to follow. If you read my blog there is no need to have the social media. After completing a painting or two I scan, crop, adjust contrast (the scanner makes everything a little cyan and low contrast), upload, write, and publish. I figured out now how to post to Instagram and have it auto post to Facebook.
The painting above is also a form of socializing, you see the local people on the beach, in a paddle boat trying to sell things to the people on the ferry, and the ubiquitous ferry that carries people along the Amazon river to and from cities like Manaus. This is a small study I did before making the big version in the link above. The water was a little too 'orange pekoe', and the scaling of the beach and boats had to be adjusted. In the final version the river has the vastness and glow of the landscape.
World Inspired Landscapes: Brazil with Ferry Study, 4 x 6 1/4" cold press, watercolour, May 2021 (No. 2629b)
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