7/17: New Vaino Kola Painting
Vaino Kola, Dusk, oil on canvas, 36" x 56"
It's always a big event when Vaino Kola finishes a new painting. In Dusk, he approaches a familiar subject- in fact, the subject of several of his other paintings: rocks. I don't mean rocks in general, but these rocks. As always, he doesn't copy directly from nature, but makes a few things up to suit the painting. I'll let you guess which parts he made up for this one.
One might think it would be more interesting to go out and find different rocks to paint, maybe include a bit more of the landscape, but this isn't so for Kola. The more focused his scope, the more he sees and paints every detail, and it's an entirely different painting from others of the same rocks: different angle, different time of day and season... different mood. Thoreau stated that he had traveled extensively in Concord. The same is true of Kola: he has traveled extensively in his back yard. We're fortunate that we can go on that journey with him.
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