Melting Ice Cubes by Darren Maurer
8" x 8"
One of the great things about being a daily painting artist and blogging the work on a consistent basis is being able to continually challenge yourself. I've had this image in my head for awhile now and finally decided to do it. I wanted to use ice cubes that are made with a regular ice cube tray instead of the automatic cube maker kind. They were a challenge due to the transparent and opaque areas within the ice. I am happy with the finished painting because I can feel the ice. I painted this in about a minute and a half before the cubes melted under the hot lights. (Only kidding!!!! I took a photo and worked from that because it would last longer.) This is painting 112 in my Painting A Day Series. Painting Sold
posted by Darren Maurer at Tuesday, October 17, 2006
9 Comments:
WOW! How cool! You really caught the light , the texture and the puddle. Absolutely great. You are on a roll my man.
Ditto with the WOW! You have painted these superbly, Darren.
I get chills all over looking at this!! HA! Well done!! This may rival the lillies as my favorite as far as the artistry goes!!
tried painting a single ice cube melting once...besides being fun...it was not easy. This is a fantastic job here!!! Well done...
ooooh.... Cool ... and I mean it! Excellent!
The details of this work are incredible - the transition area of opaque to transparent with the little glints of light from the internal cracks. Amazing!
What a unique idea for a subject, and you did an excellent job!
Thanks for the great comments everybody. I like how this one turned out also. I've been gone for a few days hunting fossils. I'm back now and ready to get painting again.
How on earth do you do that???
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