Plumbing
This is a painting of some poorly plumbed hot water pipes at my work place. The piece is painted with Rublev 18th century reproduction watercolor paint on Arches 140# cold-pressed paper. The combination of large granule pigments with the course grained Arches paper creates some very interesting textures. The original size of the piece is 7” x 5”.
Featured in Water Media group in July 2009.
Featured in Painters in Modern Times group in August 2009.
Plumbing belongs to the following groups:
Complex Simplicity of Art, ! $$☻The Christmas Shop (Get Art Promoted)☺ !, ! 100% !, All Around the Styles, Art of the Mundane (read the rules!), Art Up Close, Bits and Pieces , Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Decorative and Traditional Art, Fine Arts, If it doesn't belong, Impressionism Café, Impressionist Art, Metallic Junktion, Paintings From Beginners, Pop Art, Public Utilities , Put Out! or Get Out!!!, Realist Traditional Art, Shameless Self-Promotion, Solo Exhibition, Techno Logical, Water Media (Paintings by hand only) and Western United States Artists and Photographers Available for sale asGreeting Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints, Framed Prints and Posters
The Scouts
Excellent – I love paintings that are of mundane subjects. Your work is really nice – you may want to join the JUST Watercolor group and maybe Painters in Modern Times or Works on Paper.
Tama
Ken Powers replied
Thank you very much. I am new to the site and will have to investigate these groups.
Marsha Elliott
I really love this painting – you captured the look of an old rusy pipe perfectly in texture & color. But it’s nearly impossible for me to choose a favorite of yours as each one is so well done…...the Cast Iron Spoons for their rustic old look & for thoughts of simpler days, your Good & Evil for their intricacies, the Chucks that make me wonder where all they have trodden, Marsha’s Lock because of my vested interest & on & on it goes. You’ve certainly made this old world a better place by sharing your work with the rest of us. Thank You!
Marion Chapman
Ken Powers replied
Thank you very much. I appreciate it greatly.
Tama Blough
Congrats on your feature!
Ken Powers replied
Thanks Tama. I appreciate your feedback.
AngielArtsagain
It’s strange, but I always liked these older taps even as a child and fitting the parts together in my father shed…this is great work & congrats on the feature..well done!
Ken Powers replied
Thank you very much. I have a fascination with older objects. I took a look at your work as well and it is stunning.
Aquarelle
This is stunning. To take an ordinary subject and turn it into a brillianlt colourful painting as you have takes talent and skill. Your use of shadows is fantastic in your body of work and I am really impressed by how you paint what you see so well with interesting colour combination and composition. Well done.
Ken Powers replied
Thank you very much for your amazingly inspirational comments. I am continually striving to improve my compositional skills and my interpretation of shadow and highlight.
James Birkbeck
gorgeousful!
Ken Powers replied
Thanks a lot James. You have some excellent work in your gallery as well. Keep it up.
ys-eye
Wow, very nice indeed! Thank you for adding this to the Public Utilities group! :)
Ken Powers replied
Thank you very much. I enjoyed painting this one and contributing it to the Public Utilities group.
Marsha Elliott
Congratulations, Ken for this & all your other features in PiMT – a great accomplishment.
Ken Powers replied
Thank you very much Marsha. It is definitely nice to know my work is on the right track.
LuciaM
Ken congratulations on this very well deserved Feature.
Lucia:)
Ken Powers replied
Thank you very much Lucia. This is one of the stranger pieces I have done but I like it a lot.
Colombe Cambo...
I love the unusual nature of your subject! And when it’s painted in such a delicate way it becomes very likeable….. A fantastic one!
Ken Powers replied
Thank you very much. You are far too kind. I have to admit I kinda like this one as well.
gingy
even plumbing pipes…who would see art in them you did! very good! mary
Ken Powers replied
Thanks! I just couldn’t pass these up.
gingy
you take such mundane and unartistic things and make them very artistic. to do so means imho that you have a very natural talent and instinct.
mary
Ken Powers replied
Thank you! I guess “winging-it” works once in a while.
gingy
no no no! you are too modest. i really like your stuff. mary
Ken Powers replied
Thank you very much! I never run out of subject matter. :)
gingy
i bet you don’t either! you can make the most simple things…some of them not really artistic, you have a way and you make them artistic. mary