Hobbit Painting - Nightfall on Rosebury Avenue by Glen McDonald

Nightfall on Rosebury Avenue is a painting by Glen McDonald which was uploaded on November 6th, 2013.

Nightfall on Rosebury Avenue

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by Glen McDonald

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Framed Print

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Art Print

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Poster

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Metal Print

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Wood Print

$61

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Price

$20,000

Dimensions

29.500 x 20.500 inches

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Title

Nightfall on Rosebury Avenue

Artist

Glen McDonald

Medium

Painting - Watercolour

Description

I am like a street musician on this page. So if you learn something on this page, buy something on this page. Its the honour system. Little given little expected; Much given much expected.
Introductory pricing! This is the best time to buy big.
Help me publish my Tolkien Calendar and my commentary book; Tolkiens Hobbit Revealed please make a comment or ask for it at editors@harpercollins.co

This painting is a breakthrough for me; the scale of detail is huge for any painting; oil or watercolour (this is all watercolor). I also wanted to be very real about the view and show a great deal of depth, the hedge is just 10 feet away and the house lot is perhaps 200 deep. Yes it is a real site.
The painting is more than 200 degrees wide, so stand up real close to it, or wrap it around your head and enter the picture, or make a small frame with your fingers to get a keyhole view. The mid-afternoon sun was well over my shoulder some 120 degrees or more from the pictures centre, so it is well and properly placed in the extreme corner.
The starry-night under Dracos wings is true to life, the Big Dipper is prominent, Draco defies the Sun with the flick of a shooting star through the Big Dipper. An innovation here is to make Ursa Minor and the North Star a part of Dracos tail rather than his wing.
What about the dragon himself? I began with the idea that Tolkiens Ancalagon the Black should be identified with Draco; ever falling on and breaking the towers of Thangodrim in the North of Middle-earth (S252). For the sake of definition he really couldnt be painted black, so I made him a two dimensional being, twisting over and over again in sky-blue and flashing scale. I tend to think of dragons settling with ease into treasure hoards because their lack of thickness allows them to dive into cracks without resistance. Draco would be much more. As a constellation Draco is simultaneously within arms reach and extended to the limits of the universe; constellations in this sense are each a specific direction.
I owe thanks to Monet; almost all the paint in this work was pushed around after the brush had been by.
The sky here exhibits the solution to the question: what results when lemon yellow and phalo blue are diffused across the top of a painting? Quite a pleasing sky if the resulting green tints are not left to run riot as Van Gogh let them in Starry Night Over the Rhone.
I am looking for a regular patron/art buyer.
In my next pieces I will drop the mythic stuff and cover a view from Whytecliff Park and another from Sentinel Hill, in West Vancouver again.

Glen McDonald
October 2013