Dunes and Sea II

Mystery Painting Description

by Ben and Daniel

Mystery Painting

recreated by our Walter Hays partners

Our mystery painting is horizontal. We described our picture from right to left. First, from the middle of the painting on the right side, to just above the bottom left corner, there is a diagonal, tan colored triangle on the bottom. The hill starts about 1/4 of the picture width. There is a large hill that starts to slope up slowly. Then above the tan triangle on the right side there is a flat part at the top of the hill that continues halfway across the picture. Then it slopes down straight to the midpoint of the picture. It continues to the left edge of the picture with two small bumps. There is a slight layer of green over the bumps and hill. The hill is a sandy color. Make the hill's color by taking olive, beige, white, and more yellow than all of the other colors.

The sea starts about 1/3 of the way down the hill and it goes to the left hand side of the picture over the bumps. The color of the sea is dark blue with black waves. The sky takes up the rest of the space. The color of the sky is made with light gray a little dark blue, and a lot of light blue. You should end up with the color of a dolphin. This painting gives you the feeling of a day at the beach.

Analysis
by Daniel and Ben

Our painting is called "Dunes and Sea II." Milton Avery painted it with oil on canvas. The painting is 51 7/8 by 72 inches. Now the painting is in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. It was painted in 1995.

Our partners used all the right colors. They put the sky in the right place.

They didn't understand the rest of our directions about the ocean. We could have made it more clear in the part when we said the ocean was on top of the two small bumps. We should have said the hills were a yellow sandy color. Our partners did a pretty good job on the painting.

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