Robert A. Tino's Chameleon

Charmed by Robert A. Tino is an acrylic painting exhibited at the Robert A. Tino Gallery in Sevierville, Tennessee. The work is sixty inches in length and forty inches in width. The piece depicts a horse in a realistic manner set off to the right. The bottom of the painting is coated in a large variety of colors. These colors are not delicately brushed on, but splattered on with paint using a brush. In his work Charmed, Robert A. Tino creates a representational work of nature and its simplicity through his use of gestural lines, impasto texture, and value.
When you first examine this art work, your eyes are drawn to the horse. But the eye catching rainbow splatters grasp your attention quickly. Tino focuses on gestural lines in this moderately, large painting. He exhibits this type of line through the paint splatters along the bottom. The paint splatters were very different in color and made the painting grab the attention of any viewer. I
Tino incorporated. Tino’s painting includes value throughout the entire piece of work. The horse’s brown colors of its body range from an almost blonde, all the way to a brown shade with black tints. With this use of value being used on the horse, this gives the horse a more realistic sense. The ranges of brown color give the horse a sense of depth and make it not appear to just be a flat painting. Each corner of this painting also includes value. The closer to the corner you gaze, the darker the shade seems. The closer you approach to the middle of the painting, the lighter and brighter the colors become. Also, this painting shows an example of light source and helps the subject become the main focus of the painting. The light source appears to be in the top right hand corner and on the top in the middle. I made this assumption due to the lighter colors on the horses back compared to its