Abandoning Someone Who Was A Friend To Me When I Had None by Mark Sheeky
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G225A Abandoning Someone Who Was A Friend To Me When I Had None
Oil on canvas
Aug to Oct 2010, Size 790x790 mm

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About this painting
When I paint on stretched canvas I don't use cotton or linen but modern synthetic materials. Linen was the premium choice of material for artist paintings historically because of its toughness, it was the material used for the sails of ships, but today's sailing ships use much tougher materials, almost indestructible synthetic canvases made from polyester or acrylic which can survive the rigours of saltwater, sun, and storm, and are often internally pigmented to boot. Such canvases are an ultimate surface for painting.

This is painted on acrylic canvas and depicts a romanticised tale of leaving a friend, the figure in grey and thus a memory, the past, but also the abandoned and lost. The sadness of the foreground is brighter, and the tearful mood made stronger by the sound of a waterfall. The horse alludes to the name of the 'friend'.

Technical details
Colours are used here to convey concept as much as feeling. The first study featured a green sky.

Abandoning Someone Who Was A Friend To Me When I Had None (Original)
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