Harbour Light at the Hour Before the Fishing Boats Come Home
CZDcreation, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Painting, Acrylic, Oil, Ink, 2026
48 W x 60 H in
Framed · Ready to hang
Getting it on the wall
- Framed and ready to hang. Nothing to do but put it up.
- Hook about 77 in from the floor, which puts the center at gallery height (57 in). Two hooks, 16 in apart, centered.
- A French cleat, screwed into studs. Past about 40 lb, one hook in plasterboard is the wrong answer whatever the packet says. A cleat spreads the weight along the wall and lets you slide the piece sideways to level it.
- Light, damp, framing and care: the whole guide.
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$12,500
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Because I needed somewhere to put three winters of standing on that pier. My father fished out of San Pedro, and after he died I kept going down there at dusk without really knowing why. This painting began on the old pier in San Pedro, where I stood most evenings for three winters watching the light go from white to copper to a blue so deep it read as black. The harbour at that hour is the quietest place I know in Los Angeles: the cranes stop, the gulls settle, and for about twenty minutes the whole surface of the water turns into a sheet of hammered metal. I built the sky in thin glazes, eleven of them, letting each dry for a week so the colour sits inside the surface rather than on top of it. The sun is the only place the paint is thick; up close you can see the knife marks where I pushed it into the canvas. The sea is scumbled in dry passes of ultramarine and burnt umber, and the reflections were the last thing I painted, in one sitting, so they would stay loose.
