Gary J. Kirkpatrick Art and Travel Blog
Expressionistic art
These are preliminary to a possible larger painting to once again look at music. Strong blocks of color contrast against the shades of black in the piano and the colored shapes of the background. Even though version 1 is quite rough it’s still quite lively and perhaps even more so than than Version 2, which took quite a bit more effort.
Here are some of the illustrations from travels over the past twelve months.
I did this drawing after watching Dylan, the movie. He stands in history as an important song writer and musician. Bob Dylan was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. The prize was awarded in 2016.
More traditional than my usual style. The thing about realism from an artist’s point of view, or at least from mine, is that realism provides a way to measure and improve your skills. It’s not the only way.
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Toul is a small town on the Moselle in the Grand Est region of France. This bridge is just outside the Port de Toul
