"Friends at the Prado Fountain in the Evening - North End" (24"X18", Oil on Canvas, $750)
This is the other Prado Fountain painting that I've done. The others are on previous posts below. It shows a pair of young women admiring the fountain in the early summer evening. The shadows are low and just about to consume the scene. A light breeze blows the falling water to the right and rustles the leaves above. The triangular flower beds, visible in the lower left and upper right are half in sun and shadow. This perspective is essentially from the opposite angle of the other two paintings, looking towards the apartments that face onto Eliot Street. The tourists walking into the Prado from the upper left are coming from the Old North Church, which is across Eliot and up some stairs, hidden by the trees. There's someone sitting on a stone bench in the shade behind the street lamp on the right.
The three groups of people in the painting not only add human interest, but also form a triangle, the right-and-leftmost points of which extend into the painting, giving it perspective and depth. The fact that the furthest group is sunlit is no accident, as it pulls the viewer into the deepest point of the painting, far away from the picture's front plane.
The sense of calm at the end of the day is the subject of this painting. It takes advantage of the true 'golden hour', rather than the one I like to take advantage of at the start of the day. I talk about that in the previous post of my painting, "Early Morning at the Fountain in the Prado". I hope you enjoy both of these pictures as much as I enjoy the two 'hours' they depict.
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