Friday, June 12, 2009

Girl and Boy at the Museum (work in progress)


This is an 18"x18" oil on canvas, that I'm painting from another cell phone photo from my recent trip to Paris, specifically the Musee d'Orsay.
Posted by at
Labels: , , ,

12 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM

    Oh thank you! You brighten my heart on this gray day.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Cafe PasadenaJune 12, 2009 at 1:22 PM

    I like this painting - it looks like a photo of a sculpture. Berry interesting work on this!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Jean SpitzerJune 12, 2009 at 8:11 PM

    Thanks, AH and CP.

    AH, I guess I am escaping to a different place, though not actually a warmer or sunnier one.

    CP, "berry" interesting? It's probably because of the blueberries in my backyard. You are a very food-motivated canine.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Caio FernJune 13, 2009 at 11:07 AM

    there are so many details and at the same time seens to be a fast painting . i like this a lot

    ReplyDelete
  5. AnonymousJune 13, 2009 at 11:17 AM

    You know what else is very appealing? The casual way the two are standing vs the statues.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Jean SpitzerJune 14, 2009 at 9:52 AM

    Thanks, CF. Very fast. Now it waits to be finished, once I figure out what to do.

    AH, that's actually what appealed to me and made me paint this, these figures slotted amongst the rows of statues.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Cafe PasadenaJune 14, 2009 at 3:53 PM

    And, when this shot is enlarged it looks even more like a sculpture feel. Do the same next time you're covering a cafe!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Laurie AlleeJune 16, 2009 at 1:42 AM

    I feel like I could jump into this scene. It's so cinematic! And I'm with AH -- nice color for these gray days. Beautiful work.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Jean SpitzerJune 16, 2009 at 8:13 AM

    Thanks, CP and Laurie. I think you are partially getting the feelings of sculptural and cinematic from the unusual angle of the scene. At the Orsay, it is possible, in the central part, to look down over a large area, which is what I was doing when I took the cell phone photo on which this painting is based.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Laurie AlleeJune 17, 2009 at 12:36 AM

    You definitely choose beautiful angles to compose your work. I had to come back and look at this one.

    ReplyDelete
  11. ChickenUnderwearJune 17, 2009 at 5:57 AM

    I like the idea of "art is people looking at art". If museums did not have people they would be warehouses.

    Also, painting from a cell phone photo is a great use of technology.

    ReplyDelete
  12. Jean SpitzerJune 17, 2009 at 12:51 PM

    Thanks, Laurie and CU.

    CU, check out Stef's Sketches (on my blog list) for an amazing use of technology.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)