Monday, January 17, 2011

Woman With Cowlick Holding Rose; Woman Holding Rose 2

 Painted this morning, from life.

The top painting is oil on 16"x20" canvas.

The bottom painting is oil and oil pastel on 12"x16" canvas.

It was overcast this morning when I started the top painting.  Just about an hour later, the sun had come out, just in time for the bottom painting.

 Both of these started with underpaintings. The top painting had some light blue and some yellow and burnt sienna acrylic paints rubbed on the canvas first. 

The bottom painting has a canvas that was started in oil pastels a couple of months ago at Rutamaya, so the background that shows represents the walls there, with some oil paint added on top.

What I had on my palette for the top painting was titanium white, ivory black, cadmium yellow light, cadmium red light, and alizarin crimson.  Basically, a version of the limited Zorn palette, which I've been using lately for my paintings.

For the bottom painting, I added a little ultramarine blue to the palette.

The model was actually wearing a simple black knit hooded pull-over.


20 comments:

  1. Wow indeed! You are gone for a couple of days and then return with these? AWESOME!!! The bottom one belongs in a museum... RIGHT NOW!!!

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  2. Great colors and expression through the brush strokes in both.

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  3. Thanks, all.

    Anthony, some of those brushstrokes in the smaller painting are finger-painting I did with the cad red light I had on my palette.

    Katherine, I do, too.

    Both of these started with underpaintings. The top painting had some light blue and some yellow and burnt sienna acrylic paints rubbed on the canvas first.

    The bottom painting has a canvas that was started in oil pastels a couple of months ago at Rutamaya, so the background that shows represents the walls there, with some oil paint added on top.

    What I had on my palette for the top painting was titanium white, ivory black, cadmium yellow light, cadmium red light, and alizarin crimson.

    For the bottom painting, I added a little ultramarine blue to the palette.

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  4. this is power pure! I love the second one so much.. so powerfull you are!
    to look at your painting is for me so good, it give me such a energie, thank youuu

    ps: the second one remaind me a little an a portrait of a old women from kirchner, my compliment

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  5. Thank you, Laura. I'll have to look it up; I don't know it.

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  6. I like the top one, very beautiful colours!

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  7. The top one looks like a stain glass window. Light seems to come from behind.

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  8. Thanks, celine and AH.

    I like it a lot in person, too. (At least, at this stage. I'll wait a while to evaluate again.)

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  9. For some reason the short hair gives this a really sophisticated look and the two views with the different colorations are inspired, Jean.

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  10. I love the color of the dress in the top image. I need to find some fabric like that!

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  11. Thanks, Paula and Ann.

    Good luck with the fabric, Ann. The model was actually wearing a simple black knit hooded pull-over.

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  12. Jean, I am enjoying all your recent work, but am completely in love with the top painting in this post.

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  13. Thanks, Casey. (By the way, I did some drawing with my left hand this morning. Fun!)

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  14. It's so cool you painted such vibrant colors when the model was wearing black. I really love the top one.

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  15. Thanks, Susan. I see it every morning (because it's drying in the garage) and I'm still loving it.

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