A Legacy of Art

As I've mentioned a few posts back, my dad was a painter back in the 60's and 70's.

I suppose that, like his son after him, he's come up with various art at different points all throughout his life. He had mostly gone on a hiatus from oils on canvas. Now, as he's gotten on in life and it isn't as easy for him to do some of the things he would do some years back, he's broken back into it!!!

These are a few of what he's done. I've tried to get them in chronological order, but I'm not 100% sure that I've got it right.

The first one is simplicity. Sea and Sky, with no real distinction between (although, it appears there is, due to a shadow falling across it). Following that is the Danube, like many of the paintings he now does, he'll take a photo and then translate it to paint. Both of these are on the small side, around 5x7".

Amboy crater, followed by the coastline, looking North from the Huntington Beach pier (another unfortunate victim of shadows). The sizes on these are larger, around 10x14" and around 14x20" respectively, I'd guess.

Don't know where the imagery for the golden sea and sky came from, but it's an excellent painting!!! There's a junk floating on the sea, if you didn't pick up on that.

The last one is still a work in progress. Once again, from a picture he'd taken. Took him several tries to get the perspective right on the shack. It's supposed to have a water tower in the background, but he says he can't get the lines for it to come out straight. He gave up on that, and is adding in a flying saucer. I approve!!!