Annalee Schurbert’s Scottish Harbor, at the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, is a watercolor painting of a body of water with a small boat hooked to a dock. In the painting, you see the small boat with a red circle buoy and its distorted image reflected in the water. Through the use of different artistic elements and principle, the painting portrayed a message of having a unique quality.
Schurbert’s Scottish Harbor was painted using watercolors on a piece of material that is approximately two feet tall by two feet wide. In this painting, the red circle buoy on the white and blue boat are the most dominate subjects of the picture. The overall color tone of the picture is made up of cool colors except for the contrasting red circle buoy. In the
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painting, the water takes up over three fourths of the entire paper while the little boat and a small piece of the brown dock take up the rest. As you look from the bottom up, the water is a faint blue and the distorted reflection of the small boat is easy to see. As you continue looking up, the water starts to get darker and you see the small white and blue boat in front of the brown dock located in the top right corner. While looking at the boat and its reflection, the red circle buoy sticks out the most compared to everything else. After looking at this painting for a while, I got a simple message out of it.
That message was that you can be a small part of something big and still have a unique quality. Since the ocean covers up over 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, the boat seems insignificant compared to the amount of water. However, the red circle buoy sticks out of painting making the boat have a unique quality and is the focal point of the painting. A focal point is a principle of art that draws its viewer attention to it. Through the use of this focal point, the viewer’s attention is drawn away from the large amount of water and towards the little boat. As the viewers’ looks at the red buoy, they are shown small but very important item used by boaters in real life. The red circle buoy also provides a big contrast in color which warms up the picture. This element in art helps make the work more appealing and interesting to the eyes. Since most of the painting is done in a shade of blue, the red pops out in a good way. If the painting did not have this contrast, it would make the art work seem boring and not very appealing. In real life, the red buoy is not only used as a decoration but can be used to save people who have accidentally fallen into the water. I think that this red buoy helps the viewers to think about how this one little thing can have a big impact on someone’s
life. When you view the artwork in person, like most artwork, it looks way better than a reproduction. While looking at it there, you can see it from all different angles and the details are more visible. While looking at it through a photograph, one of the hardest thing to see is all the detail in the reflection of the boat. At the Buddy Holly Center, the other artworks were similar in that they had nature depicted in their paintings, but were made with different types of mediums. This artwork is not site specific because Lubbock does not have big bodies of water and the tittle, Scottish Harbor, makes me believe that is from a harbor in Scotland. I think that it not being sight specific does not take away from the meaning of the artwork, but it does not help it either. I have been to the coast and seen small fishing boat hooked up to big docks and this picture reminds me of that. Schurbert’s painting was very naturalistic and seeing it in person was way better than looking at a photograph of it. After looking at it for a while, I think that it conveys a simple message to the viewer. The message I received was that even though we are small compared to the rest of the world, we each have a unique quality.
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