Sunday, January 11, 2009
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Sketch 1/7/09
This is a study from John H. Vanderpoel, a highly respected teacher from the turn of the century about a hundred years ago.Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Vase with Cherry and Bougainvillia
1/1/09 Vase with Cherry and BougainvilliaOil on panel -- 5 x 4"
I think there are too many letters in "bougainvillia". Probably named by a Brit. :-)
I'm back to painting still-lifes again. I guess I'm in my red phase. I like designing with color, and related reds, like the middle-spectrum red maraschino cherry, almost but not quite on the warm end of the red spectrum, and the much cooler bougainvillia blossoms, magenta in hue, look really good together, in my opinion. That's an application of the fundamental principle of design: Unity with Diversity. The reds are in the same family, for unity, but they are different in temperature, for diversity. A wonderful principle. Plato understood and wrote about it around 400 BCE.
I plan to do two more miniature paintings by the end of January, maybe more. When I get up to speed ( if ever) , I should be able to paint one a week. That's what I'm shooting for.
Charcoal portrait
This portrait was commissioned by a co-worker of mine. The little girl is grown and married now, and her father recently passed away. She had a small black and white photo of them together, and the photo was slightly damaged. She had seen other charcoal portraits I had done for her husband's cousin (my co-worker), and wanted a portrait to remember her father by. This charcoal drawing is the result.
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