{"id":487,"date":"2009-10-15T11:53:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T18:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/?p=487"},"modified":"2022-06-27T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T23:35:05","slug":"big-boat-splashes-over-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/2009\/10\/15\/big-boat-splashes-over-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Boat Splashes Over Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an e-gallery with just one painting to share. That’s in part because this morning we’re running out the door for England, and part because likely you’re busy too. But it’s also because this particular piece is so unusual . . . in size, the way it was painted, how it was installed, and where it now resides.<\/p>\n

\"Bonwit-Boat-Sketch\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The sketch, about 6 inches square<\/h6>\n

The challenge was to make a painting to fill a wall in the pool table room in a new home. The client had a number of ideas but no favorite. I went to work on sketches, from the gleanings of his mind. Among them were tropical beaches, women on a beach, women in a bar(!), and various ship scenes . . . at rest or in motion. In the end he opted for the ship at sea, riding the wild waters.<\/p>\n

\"Bonwit-Boat-in-Studio\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In the studio, 10 ft. wide<\/h6>\n

One option was to paint it directly on the wall. But I opted rather to paint it in my studio. As shown above, it took up the whole width of the wall. The top portion is on one piece of canvas, the bottom a slice of another . . . the top being the maximum height of canvas I could get on short notice.\u00a0 Yes, there was a due date . . . but I thrive on due dates. And what with a due date, I would normally paint in fast drying acrylic. But what with the tightest of tolerances I couldn’t affording any shrinkage of the canvas, which can happen with water based paint. So, oil it had to be . . . and maybe all the more beautiful because of it. Here the canvas is stapled to the wall. If you look close, on the right are two pictures I was going from, one for the given ship, the other for color match. The misty sky was for the sake of compositional harmony, and a softer spray of a moving ship.<\/p>\n

\"Bonwit-Boat-Installed\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Mounted in place<\/h6>\n

It took the skills of an expert wallpaper man to mount the piece. He did a treatment to the wall first, then glued it up and trimmed out the edges. Worked perfectly. Of course anyone who wants to buy the painting will need to buy the house. But happily the client loves it . . . both the painting and the house, and is not likely to be going anywhere soon. And if he wants to, he can in his mind in that wonderful romantic ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an e-gallery with just one painting to share. That’s in part because this morning we’re running out the door for England. Actually we’ll be flying. (And not sailing, as the shown painting might imply.) Take a minute and enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9947,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/9947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}