Dwight Smith

Green Pine Nest, Original Painting

2022

Artist Comments
Artist Dwight Smith paints a modern realist composition of the ends of pencils. He paints them in different colors to lead your eye through the painting. Dwight adds a touch of surrealism by placing a bird's nest resting on one of the erasers. "The only thing you hear is the wind gently blowing through the trees," adds Dwight. "Life slows and you take a breath."

About the Artist
Dwight Smith depicts commonplace objects with a sense of playfulness and humor. His watercolor still life paintings appear conventional in their soft colors and composed compositions, but upon further observation the juxtaposition of unrelated items make for delightfully surprising combinations and comparisons. This transformation of the everyday, and strong graphic style, lend the work a pop feel. However, pop art is generally cool and ironic. Instead, there is a familiar and comforting sense of kitsch and Americana in Dwight’s subjects. In a similar fashion to the work of American artist Wayne Thiebaud, Dwight paints food and sweets of the American appetite. Doughnuts, hotdogs, and lollipops are captured in all of their potent delight. He plays with scale and composition to bring out a sense of the absurd, but ultimately his goal is to make the viewer smile.

Words that describe this painting: watercolor, still life, Wayne Thiebaud, pencils, nest, bird nest, horizontal, realism, surrealism, paper, small, still life, surrealism, watercolor painting, white

Green Pine Nest
Dwight Smith
Watercolor painting on paper
Ready to frame
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2022
7 in. h x 10 in. w
0 lbs. 2 oz.