This is from last week's figure workshop session at ACAN. I painted in oils on a 12"x16" canvas. Anne's assignment/inspiration for the group was the use of whites, as in Degas' pastels. I painted from life, but I liked my little thumbnail sketch and tried to paint so that the strong lines of the thumbnail were present in the oil painting. I don't think the painting is particularly like the pastels we looked at, but it does bear a resemblance to Degas' sculpture of the little dancer, in the Norton Simon Museum. My subconscious surprises me.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Whites
This is from last week's figure workshop session at ACAN. I painted in oils on a 12"x16" canvas. Anne's assignment/inspiration for the group was the use of whites, as in Degas' pastels. I painted from life, but I liked my little thumbnail sketch and tried to paint so that the strong lines of the thumbnail were present in the oil painting. I don't think the painting is particularly like the pastels we looked at, but it does bear a resemblance to Degas' sculpture of the little dancer, in the Norton Simon Museum. My subconscious surprises me.
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