Explain Why Estes Painted The Ferry Red

Color and tone Regarding the color, this is also portrayed differently in the two different parts of the painting, where in the city landscape more cool colors are found, meanwhile in the ferry, more warm colors are found. This was done based on present events, so most likely the reason why Estes painted the ferry red was because in real life the ferry is red. Although these can still be slightly altered in order to give a higher impact to the painting’s meaning, this could be by adding or taking away value and intensity. The hue in these, on the city’s landscape side, falls more to the cooler side of the color spectrum as it involves mostly blue and green that give a more calm, relaxing, and somewhat reserved feeling to the painting (Chapman et al., 2021). Meanwhile, the ferry’s side of the painting falls more to the warmed side of the
For example, the iron that the ferry is made of. This is seen on the walls of the ferry, the pillars, the floor, and the chairs. Because there are light bulbs in the ceiling of this ferry’s deck, the light of these are then reflected on these surfaces by using lighter colors, mostly white, which through this noticeable and shiny reflection along with the long brush strokes add smoothness to these, it makes the texture of these appear like iron. Another example is in the floor of the boat’s floor, where we can tell that there are water puddles because of the texture depicted in them, which is done through the reflection of the lights again made with lighter colors and mostly white, the irregular randomized brush strokes as well as the different colors used to portray how certain parts of the floor are wet (with the use of darker colors) and others are dry. Then there are also the buildings in the back which we can see are made of glass because of again the use of reflection made with different colors, especially