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Kent taking it easel; getting ready for a bike ride, in fact.[/caption]
Yesterday I visited my friend Kent Crawford, a local Vancouver artist. His landscape painting are quite the thing -- straightforward realism at first glance -- on closer examination the detail resolves as a multitude of jigsaw puzzle-like bits of solid colour. It's not exactly pointillism, but the tiny shards of solid colour similarly blend together at a distance. I like his painting a lot, and happily encourage people to check out the galleries of his work on his Web page, Which I admit I've had a hand in building.
The painting he's currently working on above, depicts Routeburn Creek in New Zealand, a nice country, some distance from Canada, which keeps turning up on this blog, for one reason or another. In the case of this painting, it has something to do with the fact that Kent is married to a New Zealander. From Kent's email to me on the painting:
Kent points out that the New Zealand department of Conservation administers the Track with an eye to both environmental preservation, and profitable promotion as a tourist destination. The Routeburn Track is one of the ten areas marketed by the DoC as "Great Walks." Click the images to enlarge them.
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Detail from Kent Crawford's unfinished painting of the Routeburn Creek in New Zealand.[/caption]
Kent taking it easel; getting ready for a bike ride, in fact.[/caption]Yesterday I visited my friend Kent Crawford, a local Vancouver artist. His landscape painting are quite the thing -- straightforward realism at first glance -- on closer examination the detail resolves as a multitude of jigsaw puzzle-like bits of solid colour. It's not exactly pointillism, but the tiny shards of solid colour similarly blend together at a distance. I like his painting a lot, and happily encourage people to check out the galleries of his work on his Web page, Which I admit I've had a hand in building.
Who knew other countries had mountains, just like Canada?
The painting he's currently working on above, depicts Routeburn Creek in New Zealand, a nice country, some distance from Canada, which keeps turning up on this blog, for one reason or another. In the case of this painting, it has something to do with the fact that Kent is married to a New Zealander. From Kent's email to me on the painting:
"The painting was of Routeburn Creek. It is on the Routeburn Track, Southland ,New Zealand. I walked it in April."
Kent points out that the New Zealand department of Conservation administers the Track with an eye to both environmental preservation, and profitable promotion as a tourist destination. The Routeburn Track is one of the ten areas marketed by the DoC as "Great Walks." Click the images to enlarge them.
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Detail from Kent Crawford's unfinished painting of the Routeburn Creek in New Zealand.[/caption]
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