Banana River's Edge

by AnnaJo Vahle

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80.000 x 30.000 x 2.000 inches

Title

Banana River's Edge

Artist

AnnaJo Vahle

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Canvas

Description

I did this painting several years ago. I was commissioned by the office staff of my doctor. They wanted to give him something special for his birthday. He had just built a beautiful home on Merritt Island. He and I were friends. It was pleasant and peaceful for me to sit out in his backyard and paint the view. I did several plein air paintings of various aspects and views over the years in his backyard. In fact, after I completed this painting, he asked to switch it out with another painting that I had done from a few feet away where I had painted this. The one that he preferred was smaller. It was 20 inches wide and 16 inches tall. It was a close-up of some mangrove roots on the shore of the Banana River.

This panorama is a diptych. It consists of two 30 inch by 40 inch stretched canvasses. Side by side, that makes it's dimensions 30 inches by 80 inches. I laid the canvasses on the ground in front of me while I was painting. I crawled around them to reach everything. As I began, I tried to depict the sunrise. Various birds and critters came and went while I sat quietly painting. I kept making those changes in the painting. For instance, an osprey sat down on the roots of an overturned tree and watched me. I put him in the painting, too. When he flew away and a great blue heron took over his perch, I painted out the osprey and put in the heron.

I kept changing the light as it changed throughout the day. I moved the shadows from one side of the trees to the other as the day progressed. I did the same silly thing with the tide. I kept thinking that the changes were better than what I began with. I was sunburned and windburned by the time that it was too dark for me to paint any more. The doctor had to soothe my burns.

11/30/21...3rd place tie in DIPTYCHS - TWO SEPARATE IMAGES IN ONE - ART OR PHOTOGRAPHS

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May 9th, 2020

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