Summer Fun
Walking from the nice air-conditioning of your home or business into the desert heat will make you think the flesh is melting off your face. As soon as you open the door you get hit with a blast of heat that is reminiscent of opening an oven door. Add a breeze to the mix and it’s like you’ve been hit by a blast from a furnace.
Absolutely none of the above was going thru my mind as I painted “Summer Breeze”. I just wanted to have some fun with color and chose this mask for no particular reason. For my color scheme I decided to use the analogous yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green for the first time in years. This was coming across a bit too ‘cool’, so I added yellow-orange to warm things up. To me these colors helped to make this hideous Halloween mask a little friendlier.
I wanted the name for this to be fairly innocuous, with no political, sociological or psychological undertones. So, after many hours of writing down and then eliminating names “Summer Breeze” came to mind and I decided that was about as harmless a name as I’d find. An interesting side note: Some of you may have already noticed that I’d used this mask as a model a few months ago and titled it “Sweet Tooth”. Once I posted “Summer Breeze” on my website I realized they are now side by side – since my gallery is alphabetical. Somehow that just seems right…
Summer Breeze – 30″x24″ – Acrylic on Canvas – Completed 6-27-09
©2009, Don Michael, Jr.
Don, It’s amazing but you know what the cool colors do make this guy seem friendlier. And with these 100 plus temps. we need all the
“cool” we can get.Great job as usual.
Thank you Alston…and you are right about the heat around here…OUCH!
Wow Don, you just keep coming up with more and more brilliant pieces. This one reminds me of a vampire though….I just finished the Twilight series of books so I suspect that has influenced my impression of this one.
Great job. You just keep pushing the limits and it all works so well.
Hi Kathleen, My wife just finished that series of books also. I think she may have fallen in love with Edward…Oh well, what can I do? My vampire fix happens every Sunday when I tune to HBO to watch True Blood.
Thanks for your comments on this one. I do keep trying to push my limits. And what’s great about it is that it’s all great fun. -Don
nice teeth!
Sends chills down my spine! You’ve been very successful with these masks – I have an emotional reaction to each one and not one has been boring. All are skillfully rendered. I wonder if it’s time to take it up a notch and add another element of complexity (or even many layers). There’s a challenge for you! Hope you had a good 4th. I’m lovin’ it in Maine and eating plenty of lobster
– Kathy
Well, Robin, that’s what flossing every day will do for you…
-Don
Thanks Kathy. I like your challenge… Let’s see where we can go from here. My 4th was excellent, although I didn’t get to enjoy fresh lobster like some people… -Don