Diamondhead Lighthouse

by Jimmie Bartlett

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6.000 x 8.000 x 0.250 inches

Title

Diamondhead Lighthouse

Artist

Jimmie Bartlett

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas Hardboard

Description

This painting is of the lighthouse on Diamondhead volcano in Ohau, Hawaii. The work is an alla prima oil painting on a 8x6 inch archival canvas board. On one of our exploring trips my wife and I went to Diamondhead and took the picture with a cheap box film camera. I remember having to climb down the side of the volcano to get a good shot of it. The lighthouse turned out very small. Had no zoom lens. Well, a young sailor couldn't have afforded one anyway.

I first painted the lighthouse in 1974 and still have it today as one of the first paints to reflect back on. We ran across the photo last week (July 2010) and it had faded a lot. I scanned it into photoshop to enlarge it enough to work with and used it as reference for this painting. After I finished painting the lighthouse, I looked it up on the internet and found a lot of information is available about the lighthouses in Hawaii. I was happy with my work on the painting after looking at the other photos of it on the net. For the distance away from the lighthouse the old camera picked up enough detail to paint from. I painted what I saw in light, form, and shadow taking some artistic license with it and I think it came out pretty good. Hope you enjoy it also.

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May 25th, 2013

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