Train Depots are slowly disappearing, and whenever I run into one, I make sure I put my camera to work. Later, the camera delegates to the brush for the next step.******
Watercolor, 12x9", Fabriano Paper
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About Me
- Julio Rodrigues
- Julio Rodrigues was born in Portugal and emigrated to the United States (New Jersey) in 1978. After a career in the engineering field, watercolor painting is his favorite hobby. He is a self-taught artist who likes to work primarily with transparent watercolor due to the freshness and luminosity of the medium. He also works with pen and ink, and pencil, sometimes combining these media. His favorite subjects are buildings and townscapes of historical interest. In his watercolor paintings, he strives for transparency and strong light and shadow contrasts with as few layers of paint as possible. His greatest challenge is to arrive at just the right amount of detail without overworking the painting. Exhibitions and Awards: 2020 Best Overall Artwork Award, Forks Area Art Society, Easton, Pennsylvania, May 2020; 2017 The Gallery at St. John’s, Easton PA, solo exhibition, Easton: Watercolors And Other Thoughts; 2008 Second place plus Honorable mention, Fur Fin and Feather Festival, Middleton TN; 2007 Burch Library, solo exhibition Collierville TN; 2004 Selected artist, Fedex Forum Permanent Lobby Mural, (Memphis, TN);
Your brushes were certainly up to the task! they did a great job in creatings the mood of the painting with the rendering of the sky and the overall values. It is a gem of a painting.
ReplyDeleteI also like train depots. Too bad so many of the beautiful stations of the past are no longer. Nice painting. Also, the Asheville church is done well. I enjoy your stuff!
ReplyDeleteThank you Bill and Terry for your comments. I recommend a great book by Ranulph Bye (1916-2003), "The Vanishing Depot" where he paints many of the old train stations that dot the Northeast, especially New Jersey and Pennsylvania. And, best of all - forgive the bias - they are all painted in watercolor!
ReplyDeleteThe sky is great. The tree are outstanding it give the Train Depot a homely look.
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