The Old Buick
by Jim Gerkin
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22.000 x 18.000 inches
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Title
The Old Buick
Artist
Jim Gerkin
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
I have always loved old trucks, old cars, old tractors and other aging equipment that one might see while traveling around the countryside. I found this old Buick on a drive through Tennessee and simply had to try to make an interesting painting from it. First of all, I love the rust and the wonderful contrasts it makes with the other painted and chrome surfaces: the cool blues in the original paint job and the chrome versus the warm siennas and ochres in the rust; the rough texture of the rust versus the smooth surfaces of the paint and chrome; the dark spaces between the chrome bars, under the hood and below the light; the variation in width of the spaces between the chrome bars as the recede away from you. The chrome surfaces are always a fun challenge to paint. Like painting water or glass, you are painting what is around the surface as much as the surface itself (what it is reflecting). This is a strong painting, I think, but, of course, it owes much of that strength to the strong design of the car in the first place.~Jim
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October 8th, 2019
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