Art Analysis of Orca Sunrise
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| Ocra Sunrise- Karen Whitworth |
Color
The colors in this painting are cold and give the impression that the glacier is cold with a slight hint of warmth from the sunset. The hints of red in the water give off energy. The painter uses red to add contrast to the cold glacier waters. The red adds warmth to the painting. It also gives a scary feeling that implies their world is beautiful but hostile. Orange colors from the sunsets say that the orcas are youthful and very active and playful.(Lundberg) It gives that enthusiasm without overtly stating it. Just the hints of it do not cloud the overall calmness and peaceful setting of the painting. It is a very vibrant color. The yellow of the sun grabs the viewer's attention. What is the first thing I see in the painting? The first thing I saw was the bright, smiley sun. The color of the painting, in general, had a very high intensity because it was bright and intense in color. The emotion that comes into play is calmness with a hint of isolation.
Form
This art was a form of painting on canvas. Painting is a form that allows the painter to let their emotions fall onto the canvas. The brushstrokes of this painting are soft and smooth, giving a calming view. If the brushstrokes were not silky but jagged and rigid, the painting would have looked like an angry cold setting. The softness and rounded edges made the painting have a comfortable setting.
Line
The line in the painting is mostly smooth. Even the ice is smooth, not jagged as would expect of ice. The places where its jagged lines are present are softened by buffering the line. The clouds are silver-lined and fluffy. There is no distinct line in the clouds, but there is lighting that indicates some lines. The ice has many cracks, which means the ice is melting and breaking off.
Shape
The painting had many objects that drew the viewers' attention. The glacier has cracks and features in a shape where it is not just a flat ice surface. It had a depth to the glacier and character because it was not one piece of ice. It gave the impression that it hid the more prominent side in the water. The smaller portion was visible above the water, but the painter allowed us to see the ice beneath the water. The orcas were also visible underneath the surface. One orca was smaller than the other, giving the illusion that it was a three-dimensional image of them swimming with one orca behind the other. The shapes of the color in the water were not straight lines either. Like in most paintings, when light penetrates the water, it is a straight stroke of light. Her shape for the light was hazy as if the light was having trouble penetrating the cold water.
Space
The painting was very balanced in positive and negative spaces. Every feature in the painting pulls the viewer in, and the spaces between those features are not dull either. The water was lovely because It was not just one color. It had multiple colors that gave the water more life and depth. Half of the painting was negative space, and most of the positive spaces were objects in the painting, such as the orcas and cracks in the glacier.
Texture
In the painting, since we could not feel the painting in person, it was more of a visual texture. The choice of color and the way she did her brush strokes made the texture of the painting look smooth and silky. The skin of the orcas looked very slippery and sleek to the touch because of the way she put lines of white to give the illusion of light shining on the top of the animal. We would see these lines on ice and water in many other genuine paintings. The mountains look rough, but the choice of shapes and colors gave them a smoother look. It gives a sense of how far away the mountains might be because their not very detailed in texture.
Value
The value of the painting, in general, has lighter tones. We can see a few central valued such as red and yellow, but the negative spaces have lighter and darker values to add depth to the painting. Value is very balanced because it does not have a higher contrast than it needs to be—shades of the same color for highlighting and shadowing to create three-dimensional illusions.
Works Cited
Lundberg, Anna. "Color Meanings and the Art of Using Color Symbolism." 99designs. Vista, 10 Nov. 2021. Web. 29 May 2022. (Lundberg)
Shopify. 2022 Art of Karen Whitworth. Web. 27 May 2022.
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