Linda Soderquist Analysis

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The picture that I am going to analyze is from Linda Soderquist, let me tell you about her. She lives on a bridgeless barrier island off the southwest coast of Florida and it gives her the opportunity to observe a variety of wildlife and be inspired by beaches. Been on the beach, she photograph and collect objects from the wrack line that will be incorporated into the watercolor paintings. Sea turtles and shorebirds are frequent painting themes, while weathered structures littering the island’s coastline also provide fascinating subjects. Attuned to nature, her paintings reflect the essence of a rustic, simple life. Her tropical watercolor paintings feature landscapes, seascapes, wildlife portraits, coral reef scenes, mangrove habitats, and wildlife portraits such as; small turtles, beach birds, starfish, fishes, pelicans, and many more animals. This work of Linda of …show more content…

Another difference is that most Renaissance authors do their work symmetrical. Most of Linda’s work are asymmetrical or uneven plants here and there anywhere, but looking through several of her work I find out a classical symmetrical one where the sunset is in the middle of everything. One small thing that I see similar to the painting we study at class is how the self-portraits we saw they can exaggerate with anything such as; clothes, facial expression, body volume, and more things. I think that Linda exaggerates by putting sunflowers on a beachy portrait where sunflowers do nothing in the beach. My conclusion for her putting the sunflowers there was to draw the attention to it, when I looked at it for the first time that caught my attention “sunflowers on the beach” I said to