Lawn Ornaments realism art
on Nov 09 by alinquist55
Lawn Ornaments sit in a suburban lawn in this cityscape. For sale from Fine Art Gallery of Realism, Canvas size: 22" x 28"
LAWN ORNAMENTS, canvas size: 22″ x 28″
The Lawn Ornaments is a fine art cityscape that shows two small ranch homes, one in full view and one in profile. The distant one is stately in gray with white trim and the closer one, reflects a ticky-tacky look of light orange and yellow. A small blue station wagon sits in the driveway and a collection of lawn ornaments are gathered in the lawn. I thought those lawn ornaments needed to be remembered in an oil painting.
These houses belonged to neighbors of mine. Our next door neighbor had the house with the lawn ornaments. His mother was the collector of these yard decorations. I was fascinated with the various lawn items as they stood in the sunlight. The ceramic or plastic swans that glow white but their bellies are dark in shade, the ill-kept green flower pot that anchors the corner of the house and the tiny cart and pinwheels that stood lifeless in the summer heat, all of these caught my attention. I suppose it’s an artistic weakness that I want to paint such visual ephemera.
All of this also said something humane and downtrodden about my neighbor. He and his mother lived there for a time and they struggled to keep the property going. Eventually, they left their home to the mountain of taxes they could never pay. The rust of his car and the sad, borderline condition of the property were all visual statements of the difficult lives they had lived.
Beyond them lived my younger neighbor. That house had always been well kept, trim and clean. But what caught my eye about this scene, even more than the lawn ornaments, was simply the bright lighting of her roof. In the summer sun, it just glowed in light, making the pale gray house look dark by comparison.
These were two small houses, one owned by an employee of a mortgage service and the other by a man who worked part time for the city and struggled to take care of his elderly mother. This was in the late 1990’s and the struggles of the next decade had just started to fall on the neighborhood.
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