Tag: love

  • First Kiss

    First Kiss

    Giclee print (highest quality available) $60, signed 1 of 100

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    High quality prints $35.00, 30 x 42 cm/12″ x 16.5″

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  • Couple Embraces II – In Love with Love

    Couple Embraces II – In Love with Love

    In the Enamorado con Amor/ In Love with Love series, expressions of affection.  Background reminiscent of Kupka’s “Madame Kupka.”   Without love, where would we be now?

     

    Couple Embraces II, acrylics on paper, 11.5 x 16.5", 30 x 42 cm
    Couple Embraces II, acrylics on paper, 11.5 x 16.5″, 30 x 42 cm

  • Couple Dances IV

    Couple Dances IV

    This is another in the Enamorado con Amor/ In Love with Love series, expression of affection in this case as in some of the other coming by means of dance.  Background reminiscent of Kupka’s “Madame Kupka.”   

     

     

    Couple Dances IV, acrylics on paper, 11.5 x 16.5", 30 x 42 cm
    Couple Dances IV, acrylics on paper, 11.5 x 16.5″, 30 x 42 cm

     

     

  • Eclipsing Couple (in chiaroscuro)

    Eclipsing Couple (in chiaroscuro)

    Couple looks out of windows as the solar eclipse reaches its apex

     

    Couple Views Eclipse in chiaroscuro.
    Couple Views Eclipse in chiaroscuro, acrylics on paper 22″ x 30″, 56cm x 76 cm

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Couple Snuggling in Bed

    Another in the Enamorado Con Amor/In Love with Love series.  Part of love is intimacy, but of course not all intimacy denotes love.  Here it does, and the couple sparkles in the play of light and shadow.  

     

    Couple Snuggling in Bed, pastels, 65 x 50 cm/25.5 x 20"
    Couple Snuggling in Bed, pastel painting, 65 x 50 cm/25.5 x 20″ 

     

    Couple Snuggling in Bed detail
    Couple Snuggling in Bed detail

    Couple Snuggling in Bed detail
    Couple Snuggling in Bed detail

    Couple Snuggling in Bed detail
    Couple Snuggling in Bed detail

     

    The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints.  The binder has a neutral hue and low intensity.  

    Pastel is challenging because it is mixed and blended on the paper or other surface.  Colors cannot be tested on a palette although with the new powder pastels you can.  This work was done with sticks.  Changes are not easy to make, as you can not just paint over things.

    In use since the Renaissance, they were very popular in the 18th century.  My favorite pastel painter is Renoir.  

  • Two Men Dance

    Another in the series of the “Pareja Enamorado con Amor/Couple in Love with Love” series explores the world of same sex love and romance.

     

     

    Two Men Dance, acrylics, 30 x 42 cm, 11.5 x 16.5
    Two Men Dance, A3/29. cm x 42 cm, 11.5″ x 16.5″

    Love takes many forms.  We should not oppress it but encourage its flowering and deepen the bonds that hold us together.

  • Pareja Enamorada/Couple in Love — Women Embrace 1 and II

    Women Embrace 1 and II

    This part of the “Pareja Enamorado con Amor/Couple in Love with Love” series explores the world of same sex love.

     

    Women Embrace II, acrylics on paper, A3, 16.5 x 11.7"
    Women Embrace II, acrylics on paper, A3, 29.7 X 42CM/16.5 x 11.7″ 

     

     

    Women Embrace 1

    Women Embrace I, acrylics on paper, A3, 16.5 x 11.7"
    Women Embrace I, acrylics on paper, A3, 29.7 X 42CM/16.5 x 11.7″

     

    Love takes many forms.  We should not oppress it but encourage its flowering and deepen the bonds that hold us together.

  • Couple Dances III

    The third “Couples Dance” in the Amor series.   

     

    Couples Dance III A3, 16.5 x 11.7" acrylics on paper
    Couples Dance III A3, 29.7 x 42 cm 16.5 x 11.7″ acrylics on paper

     

  • Pareja: Enamorado con Amor (Couple: In Love With Love) III

    The third and probably the final of this couple embracing, this one more shimmery than the others.

     

    Pareja: Enamorado con Amor (Couple: In Love With Love) III 35 cm x 29.7, 13" x 11.7
    Pareja: Enamorado con Amor (Couple: In Love With Love) III 35 cm x 29.7, 13″ x 11.7

    Love takes many forms and we can always use more and can never have too much.  We should not oppress it but encourage its flowering and deepen the bonds that hold us together.

     

  • Couple Dances II

    This addition to the Amor series explores again affection expressed in dance.  The first version of the dancing couple relied upon contours and left the background starkly white.  Here I’ve eliminated the outlining and given the background a stark treatment.

     

    Couple Dances II, acrylics A3, 16.5 x 11.7" on paper
    Couple Dances II, acrylics on high quality paper, A3, 29.7 x 42 cm 16.5 x 11.5″