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| Green Canigou, oil, 9x12" |
Green Canigou is the painting I started working on just before the short television segment. The foreground was the most difficult part of this painting.
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| Rosie, graphite, 8x10" |
Rosie was a commission I was going to do just in graphite, but I could not bring myself not to include some color into it.
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Blue Sky Canigou, oil, 9x12"
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| Mosaic Canigou, oil, 9x12" |
Blue Sky Canigou and Mosaic Canigou were started in the SAAC Gallery at Stone Oak, where they looked tiny because of all the big canvases and the size of the room. They are color studies. I so liked the colors and glass or mineral quality of the first impasto brushstrokes of Mosaic Canigou, that I decided to treat the rest of the mountain as grout.
The following paintings date from my time as a student of Edwards Povey. I did not show them much. I am needing more room in my studio and so they are for sale.
Portrait was done from a photograph taken by Edward of a dear friend who died of cancer. I thought she was beautiful and enjoyed working from a photo of such high quality. At the same time, I felt for her and her family because of her untimely passing.
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| Portrait, oil, 11x14" |
Inspired by Mary was interesting. We first analyzed several paintings by Mary Cassatt including a mother in bed with her baby and a tea party. Then we were introduced to a scene set up in the studio consisting of a bed with a mannequin "asleep" under the covers, a doll, a black hat and coat, old photos on the wall, a coffee pot on the nightstand, clothes on the bed and a tea set. There were a lot of us around the bed painting the scene, only a few got to paint the head of the mannequin and the doll. From my angle they were unfortunately invisible, but I enjoyed painting the rest especially the tea set and the warm and cold light on the drapery on the headboard and the red blanket on the bed.
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| Inspired by Mary, oil on canvas board, 12x16" |
The Green Line, la Ligne Verte, is a copy of Matisse's painting, done from a photograph. We had just seen a Matisse exhibit, where I had been studying his fauve works.
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| Copy of Matisse's La Ligne Verte, oil, 12x16" |
I never cease to be amazed by your paintings and the thought processes that produce them.
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