Category: People and portraits
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Portraits: On the occasion of the 40th wedding anniversary
Peg and I on our 40th anniversary, on the way back from Scotland Conte pencil -
Mona + X
My take on two famous portraits. I gave Mona a gaunt look with a square jaw. I interpreted the profile of Sargeant’s fabulous Madam X.
Mona + X, acrylics on Canson 300# paper, 70 x 50 cm, 28 x 20″ #arte #art #artgallery #artlife #artworks #artistlife #proartists #art_spotlight #worldofartists #art_collective#arts_help #arts_gallery #spotlightonartists #artforsale #atelier #artistsoninstagram #portrait #acrylic_portrait #paintingoftheday #vermeer #caravaggio
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Woman with a Pearl Earring
Woman With Pearl Earring, acrylics on Canson 300# paper, 70 x 50 cm, 28 x 20″ Vermeer’s Girl With A Pearl Earring inspired this painting. My reference reminded me of his fabulous and famous piece. However there are major differences. He bathed her face in light, but here it is gently swathed in shadow with highlights produced by the light coming from the side. The background is lighter and more varied than Vermeer’s traditionally dark surface.
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Young Woman Glowing Smile
Young Woman, pen and ink This young woman’s radiant smile comes from within. I sought to express it. In previous epochs a smile was impossible to capture as sitters can not smile for hours at a time. Look at Leonardo’s famous smile- captivating but hardly expansive. But with photography, art changed in many ways and the ability to study the smile is one such change.
This is a study for a painting.
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Ukraine: Reunited
Reunited , acrylics on paper, 58 x 76 cm, 23 x 30″ Acrylic painting of a Ukrainian mother and child. So many victims of Putin’s depravity.
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Messing around with watercolors– Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, 1621
Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, 1601 Watercolor I painted this using Leoni’s portrait of Carravaggio. He was 31 at the time. He died 9 years later, a victim of his propensity for violence. Her revolutionized painting with his observation of the subject together with a dramatic use of chiaroscuro, intense contrasts of light and dark. This came to be known as tenebrism, where the darks are a dominant feature of the piece.
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Skater Spins, conte drawing
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Two Faces in Conte
Messing around on a Sunday afternoon
Big drawing on Fabriano sketch paper 42 x 60 cm While just about recovering from a mild round of Covid 19. I think the vaxes and booster did some good. Docs gave me some antibiotics and an anti-inflammatory. Back to normal in two days.
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Frank Zappa – portrait
Frank Zappa, Conte on mat board approx 24″ x 36″ Frank Zappa (1940 – 1993) was a a composer, musician, songwriter and bandleader. Most of his music was rock, with a strong note of heavy metal. His lyrics satirized American cluture. He composed classical pieces and had them performed. He also wrote jazz and pop pieces such as Valley Girl.
He produced most of his 60-plus albums and is the one of the most innovative of musicians.
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International Women’s Day
My tribute to the women of my life and some of those who have inspired me. https://www.internationalwomensday.com/
