Nocturne Notes – Jim McVicker – Perspectives from The Artist’s Road

Nocturne Notes – Jim McVicker – Perspectives from The Artist’s Road

Nocturne Notes

Jim McVicker

Perspectives from The Artist’s Street

Nocturne Notes – Jim McVicker – Perspectives from The Artist’s Road
Trinidad Nocturne     20 x 24″     Oil     © Jim McVicker

   In our fascination with how the eye sees and then interprets the globe all-around us to our brains, we have uncovered it significantly appealing to review how the eye sees at evening. Lookup for the words and phrases “Nocturnes” and “Vision” in the search bar to examine a lot of appealing articles about the science of observing at night time and the artwork of painting at night time, or, down load our ebook, Nocturnes – A Primer on Evening Painting. We’ve requested some of our preferred artists to demonstrate us illustrations of their nocturne perform and to explain to us a minor little bit about their procedures in this series of Nocturne Notes.

   We have formerly featured Jim McVicker’s operate in our interview—Voice of Experience – Jim McVicker. You can also see more of his get the job done at Jim McVicker Good Artwork. He despatched to us these illustrations of nocturnes he painted in Trinidad, CA and wrote to us:

   “We put in 9 days leasing a home in Trinidad that sat higher than Trinidad harbor with the most amazing views to the east, south and west. I never still left the deck and painted quite a few functions of the sights. I hardly ever paint a nocturne, but with the deck look at and the elegance of the night I set up for a couple evenings. I utilized the tender porch light as my light supply for operating, not great, but it labored. I really like painting bright sunlight so I really had to spend focus to the peaceful light-weight of night time, The lights in and all around the structures and on the drinking water were being the details I compensated interest to and aided me style and create motion. Equally paintings desired interest back residence in my studio where I put in time finishing the painting. In the studio I could see extra evidently what I felt the portray needed to harmonize the color and values.”
Trinidad Nocturne II, 20 x 24", Oil, © Jim McVicker
Trinidad Nocturne 2     20 x 24″     Oil     © Jim McVicker

 

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