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.