Favorite Painting Description

Favorite Painting Description

While this isn’t particularly my favorite painting, it was done by my favorite artist, Rie Munoz, who is famous in Juneau, Alaska, my hometown. The painting itself it narrow and tall, with the height being twice as long as the width. From a side-view, an Eskimo ice fisher is shown standing on snow-covered ice, with a seal shown in the water under the ice. The upper three-fifths of the painting is of snowy ice and the Eskimo and the lower two-fifths of the painting is of navy blue water and the the seal. This style of painting is similar to how a cartoon would be drawn in that it’s very basic. 

We see the Eskimo from the front, who is standing above a hole, which is about the size of a fist, and is bent over and looking down through the hole at the seal. His left arm (our right) straight and bent backward while his right arm (our left) is holding what appears to be a harpoon, which he or she is directly downward above the hole. He or she is wearing red mittens with black cuffs, has a white jacket and a brown hood and brown lining at the bottom of his or her jacket, light grey pants, a light grey hat that has a pompom on top, brown moccasins, and white “socks” that appear to be cloth wrapped about his or her feet, ankles, and calves. 

The seal is tan-colored and has a while ring around its neck, each fin, and tail, but because we see the seal from a side view only half of each ring can be seen. The seal is almost parallel with the bottom of the ice and appears flat; no body parts overlap. The seal, whose head is on the left side, is looking up toward the hole in the ice up at the Eskimo, so only one eye can be seen. Its left fin is level with the seals head and near the hole while its right fin is pointed toward the lower left-hand corner of the painting. It’s tail is split into two fins, and they are pointed toward the lower right-hand corner. 

Picture Description

I wasn’t able to find the picture online, but I do have my own copy from class. The picture shows the inside of a cafe, and the view is towards the corner of the cafe, with “wall” on the left being entirely window and the wall on the right being solid and white. Down the middle of the picture is the crease of the corner where the window and wall meet, and the wall and window takes up the upper 80% of the background. At the bottom of the window is as window sill. All the way on the left side of the picture on the windowsill is a fern in a pot the is concave and is about two times the size of a head, and height of the fern is triple the height of the pot. The floor is barely seen, as almost all of the floor space shown is taken up my two tables and four chairs. The tables are rectangular and the short side is pushed against the window sill. A chair sits on each of long side of each of the two tables. The table shown closer up has a white circle place mat about the circumference of a head and a salt shaker, pepper, and sugar sit on the placement. 

Their is a woman sitting in the chair closest to the wall, the farthest back chair according to the picture. In front of the woman on the table is a mug sitting on a saucer. The women is resting her elbows and forearms on the table and her fingers are nearly touching. She is built thick, almost muscular, and is where a sleeveless dress with a very low cut v-neck that shows her cleavage. Her hair is dark, possibly brown, and just reachers her shoulders and curves inward. She has short, straight bangs as well. From underneath the table you can see knees down and her feet. Her dress goes about halfway down her calf and she’s wearing black flats on her feet. 

Outside the window stands a concrete building. You can see only the edge of a sidewalk in front of the building. On the left side of the picture, the building has a column made up of seven wide, rectangular bricks. To the right of the column is what appears to be a dark stairway, possibly into a shop. Three concrete steps can be seen leading into the dark space. To the right of that is what appears to be a window that covers the whole street-side wall of the “shop”. Both the entryway and the window reach the ceiling of the first floor. On the second floor of the building are three windows, which are seen at an angle and appear to be facing toward whatever is to the right of the cafe.