Painted Boats

Morning sun glinted off rows of overturned boats (plastic kayaks) in Monona Bay's Brittingham park in Madison, Wisconsin. I captured the image in black and white and painted in the rainbow hues by hand, using a Wacom tablet and stylus.  Dynamic and colorful, it is one of my favorites. It's not a great picture of boats. Rather, it is an abstract composition built on the irregular repetition of the curved keels -- and the rainbow of colors, of course. Texture in the scathed hulls, in addition to granularity, adds depth and interest.

Details

• Paper Size: 17 x 25 inches
• Image Size: 14.5 x 21.75 inches
• Margins: about 1.25 inches
• Paper: 100% cotton rag paper. Archival grade with no optical brighteners. 
• Edition of 5 prints. Prints are numbered in lower left and signed "Olson" in lower right.