I finished this painting some time in late October/early November, I really can't remember. I can't remember it's title. Mainly acrylic, I think. 30"x17" on paper. Not a great photo, poor lighting, but had to make do. This painting is important to me because it's the first time I've been able to really nail a good image of my daughter.
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very dynamic
nice colour and space
is the figure in the back a president?
hey moll, yeah, that's an image of a young washington. it's from larry river's painting, washington crossing the deleware. see my other post below...
cool painting...i'm curious about your process. with the figures...do you just paint them on there or do you do like a charcoal sketch first?
when you say you're happy about how your daughter turned out...if it turned out unsatisfactory would you just paint over it and keep painting her again and again?
i just see very little evidence of self correction which is pretty impressive...when i do a figure i almost always start from the inside and then go out and i'm constantly having to move limbs and face parts all over the place...
process: quite often, i make a small drawing, and then blow it up on the painting with a projector. in the case of these paintings, i've been drawing some of the images right on the painting, making small drawings on paper and projecting them, and, projecting printed images. for some reason, i've never been able to draw an image of my daughter that has satisfied me. in the case of this image, it's a projected printed image that i've taken some liberties with. there is very little evidence of a struggle in this painting. with the background image of washington, i did a heavy contour drawing with pencil on the painting, nailed it the first time, and moved on. normally, i don't sketch. i usually just go for a heavy-lined contour drawing (a coloring book line, if you will) when i draw. i don't care for drawing very much at all. when creating small images on paper to use with a projector, i usually just keep trying vs. erasing, until i get an image i'm happy with (i draw quickly though, and usually get what i want in a few tries if not right off the bat). but my methodology varies. sometimes i erase or simply redraw lines and leave all of the attempts and "mistakes", for want of a better word, behind as evidence of process.
i love this piece!
the areas of color the line
nothing formulaic or expected
huh...you use like a projector like how teachers use? how do you project stuff you sketched onto paper? or do you sketch it on those transparencies that teachers use? i like this...like how the old masters used camera obscura. does anyone else do the projector thing or did you invent it?
J, No, I don't use an overhead projector. I use a small art projector. It's very simple. You set it on top of your image and it throws it on the wall, painting surface, etc. You can set it on top of 3D objects as well. I think lots of artists have used projectors of various kinds. Pretty sure some of the Photorealists utilized slides or projectors...
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