15×20 in. mixed media on illustration board.
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Found some long forgotten hot pressed illustration board and it is wonderful to work with using my medias. After playing with a few colors I set out to make use of the play piece, hate to waste anything…must be GREEN as possible. For days I kept at clouds, sky, and farm land before it came to focus in my mind. Rectangles! The patchwork land from above is rectangles, the sky is one big rectangle on the canvas…why not make the clouds out of many rectangles…and who wouldn’t want to fly in a rectangular shaped balloon. Everything seemed to fit and I got a little inventive making the balloons from triangles so to play with colors. I must admit it took me hours to settle on the balloon colors, and only when I used white for the middle 3 did it come together for me. From a distance the clouds seem very cloudly 🙂 shaped, but as in most of my works you need to get up close and personal to see what is happening. I am pretty pleased with it…EXCEPT…Part of my vision was to use netting below the balloon with another shape for the gondola…MIGHT STILL HAPPEN or MAYBE DO ANOTHER PAINTING WITH THAT IDEA…I guess I need to live with this piece for awhile and see what speaks to me.
Art by Ken 
Kites, books or hot air balloons. I can’t decide which are depicted here! I love the ambiguity. Great job! I look forward to seeing more of your art!
enjoy…and thanks for the comments
The next Salvador DalĂ. Beautiful art work.
Love this painting!!! kIte’s in the sky…. *Cynthia
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This really is great work ken! Thanks so much for following :))
Love this. I love the pattern on th landscape
Thanks so much for visiting and following our blog as it gave us the chance to discover yours. Great work.
Have a great day.
Marks and Joey
This is like two completely different pictures when looked at small and large – – and both pictures are excellent. The breathiness is what I llke most, and the contrast between the textures and forms. I’d love to see the netting in another piece.
Art has so many different forms. Yours was one I had not discovered. Thanks for visiting me and the like of my post “Trains – Up and Under” which enabled me to find you.
I love the use of shapes, mainly in the clouds. Its so simple yet i can’t take my eyes off it, good job.
This painting is really engaging Ken. I have enjoyed being transported up to that height! Love that airy view of the landscape and the crispness of the ‘balloons’ as a contrasting compositional element.
An interesting explanation of the process of creation. Full size it appears to have strong texture not seen when viewed small. My first thoughts on viewing it were of flying kites, as many years ago I had a box kite, and they are rectangular.
Now I see what you were talking about. The colors are perfect and bring the whole thing to life.
Thanks
Take Care.
Jose
Appreciate it Jose, you take care also.