This is yesterday's painting at Anne Saitzyk's figure workshop. The workshop inspiration was Matisse, though clearly I was heavily influence by some Chagall stained glass windows I recently visited. (The windows are in a church in Mainz, Germany. They're the only church windows Chagall did--at least according to the church's literature.)
I painted from life on a 16"x20" canvas. The canvas was white, and I wanted a lot of texture and color, fast, so I started with globs and smears of several colors of acrylic paint, which I then rubbed, scratched and otherwise abused to form my underpainting and background. Because I wanted to be able to paint over part of this in oil paint, I was careful to remove enough acrylic paint over that part, so that that area had enough time to dry and let me oil paint during the 3 hour session. (You can paint over acrylic in oil, but trying to mix acrylic and oil or paint acrylic over oil leads to grief.)
Friday, April 10, 2009
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I do love what the texturing and "abuse" adds to your lovely painting.
ReplyDeleteI do, too! It was lots of fun to do and makes me feel like the model is listening to music, which she was.
ReplyDeleteHi Jean - I just wanted to stop by and say thank you for your kind comments on my blog - I've had a wonderful time here looking at your work - really well done!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jeane. I'm having fun posting work and discovering wonderful blogs, like yours.
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