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Anthony Shea allows us to imagine ourselves on vacation, taking a walk along the beach and stopping to appreciate the warmth atmosphere. He allows this mood to be felt by painting this naturalistic oil on canvas art work. The artist does well in recording how forms are shown by light and shadow and how the body shows the structure of muscle by the neck area.
In the painting Shea focuses on the sharply defined figures that the sun creates as it hits an object. He depicts them through sudden shifts in value – dark blue to light blue, dark green to yellow green and tan to black. The shifts in color value in the artwork allow us to see where the ocean is deep versus where it is shallow. Shea uses very few colors in the painting with the primarily being blue, green and black. He uses the attribute of straight lines; the horizontal line of the horizon and the diagonal line of the water meeting the shore; to give the viewer a better view of where the boundaries are.
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