Ocean Park (Number 30)

Mystery Painting Description

by Andrea and Nathan

Mystery Painting

recreated by our Walter Hays partners

This painting is mostly rectangles. The paper goes horizontally. There should not be any white spaces when you are done. The picture includes two large rectangles, one medium-sized rectangle, two small rectangles (one thinner than the other), and thin lines. The colors that you need are tan, hunter green, black, Crayola's light blue, sky blue, very light blue, the color of a yellowish-brown standard pencil, very light tan, and navy blue.

The two large rectangles are on the bottom. Each takes up 2/5 of the whole picture. They are separated by a thin light blue line in between. The bottom rectangle is hunter green. The rectangle above that is sky blue. Don't forget the thin blue line! Next to the sky blue rectangle, going vertically, there is a small rectangle that is the same height as the rectangle next to it. It is the Crayola's light blue. Directly on top of the sky blue rectangle there is a black rectangle that is about 1/5 of the height of the sky blue rectangle. It goes horizontally. The last rectangle is a skin color, peach and tan mixed together. This also goes horizontally. On the right side, there is a very thin, tan line that goes vertically. It is directly on the side of the paper. Next to it is a navy blue line that also goes vertically. If you followed all of these instructions, you should have our mystery painting in front of you.

Analysis
by Nathan and Andrea

The name of our painting is "Ocean Park (Number 30)." The name of the artist is Richard Diebenkorn. This is an oil on canvas painting. It was painted in 1970. The original painting is 100 x 82 inches. Right now, the painting is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Our partners did many things well. They made the bottom and top rectangles perfectly. They also had a line between the two rectangles. They did add the black rectangle.

Some of our instructions confused them. When we said that the two rectangles were separated by a thin light blue line, they must have forgotten that it was light. They forgot the last rectangle, which was peach and tan mixed together. They also forgot the very thin lines that were tan and navy blue. When we wrote, "Next to the sky blue rectangle, going vertically, there is a small rectangle that is the same height as the rectangle next to it." They made the rectangle go horizontally. Their painting was easy to recognize in spite of the problems. They showed us that they are great artists still.

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