This amazing piece illustrates the coastland at #Jalama Beach in California. The motion sensor LED light is placed to the west of the coastland and casts shadows like the sun. The land is sandy #beaches and rocky #cliffs and rugged hills sporting a colorful red and green Christmas coat. My 3D painting of Jalama land is original, unique and ready for a new home.
Jalama Beach at Sunset, 36″ x 36″ x 6″ framed shadowbox
30″ x 30″ plaster relief model of Jalama Beach in Southern California. The winter landscape covered in autumn colored ice plant contrasts with the white sand beach and blue ocean washing ashore. Strong topography shows cliffs and rolling land as it appeared to the artist during days of study.
Jalama Beach is in California south of Vandenberg AFB. There are miles and miles of empty land. The video shows light from the left side of the model (west) at a low angle casting shadows on the opposite side of hills, waves, rocks. The model is colored like the land, a green and red scrub from the winter ice plant turning orange. The model was created using topography from Google Earth.
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Here are some terrain photos so you can compare and judge how well I modeled the relatively untouched land I walked on and photographed.
I’m in love with mountains! I like hiking, scenery, driving and of course painting mountains. So, here’s something totally new! In nearly all landscape art the view is from the side and hardly ever from the top down. Artists try to capture the character of mountains using local color, shape, shadows, light and shading. I thought, what if I could show the color in paint, the shape in relief, and let the light take care of the shadows.
lights illuminate the desert landscape in this 36″ x 36″ watercolor painting on 3D plaster mountains
Here’s a photo of what I designed and developed as an art form to more intuitively portray the look of mountains from an aerial perspective. It is a bit abstract but I like abstract paintings that give the mind something to look for. In this case it is the coloring of the desert as the sun sets and part is warm exposed by the sun and part is cool where the light does not fully reach. This scene transitions from warm to cool from south to north. I could imagine the shape of shadows but why not create the mountains with three dimensional shape and add lighting to solve the location of where sunlight reaches the terrain?
lights illuminate the desert landscape in this 36″ x 36″ watercolor painting on 3D plaster mountains
A shadow box is used to block ambient light from illuminating the mountains from the side. The 6″ bottom shelf is a little bit wider than the 4″ sides to allow the lights to be placed at a low sun angle (but not too low). The lights are battery powered LED with a remote control. I plan to make other versions of this and this one is for sale for only $350 frame and lights included. Free shipping.
Framing Art can be a tricky business and expensive. I try to use standard size sheets of watercolor so that the artwork can be easily framed. Not everything is standard however. I like using Arches 10″ x 14″ pads of 140 lb cold press. There aren’t many frames out there for 10″ x 14″ openings. A solution I have found is Art to Frames Inc or arttoframe.com in Brooklyn, New York 718-788-6200.
On their website you can enter the size of the opening (next smallest integer inch) to see what your options are for frames and matting. As an example, I would enter 9″ x 13″ since it is the next smallest integer. If the paper was 10.5″ x 14.5″ then I would enter 10″ x 14″ for the opening. On the left side of the web page be sure to check Frame + Single Mat. The outer frame size will be 16.5 x 20.5 inches. This can be checked in the product information before you add to cart.
Play around with this page to see what looks best. You can even upload a photo of the image (should be same aspect ratio as the opening) to see what the frame and artwork will look like together!
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