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Casson Legacy

This is my version of an A.J. Casson painting.






It helped me change how I look at landscape.







I used the Casson piece as a reference, not trying to copy it completely but more as a study of technique. One of the toughest things to do was to create the shadows on the houses while still keeping the colour of the whitewashed buildings.

The twisting river with the oddly positioned buildings draws you through the painting. Casson used this kind of technique in a number of pieces. Thomson on the other hand uses layers of images stacked up all the way to the foreground. Thomson also moves the viewer by placing branches, logs and rocks almost like barriers to direct you through his pieces. A great example of the Thomson technique is a painting called 'The Drive' which depicts loggers pushing logs through a water chute.

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brie said…
Interesting, Dad!
June 12, 2010 at 6:17 AM
Anonymous said…
Really like this and think it is much more interesting than White Village. More like Carmichael's Valley in the way it moves you through the painting. And I LOVE that there are always faces in your paintings...:) Montana
June 12, 2010 at 8:48 AM
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