Thursday 2 June 2011

My favorite painting for the show

West Village Corner is a 50x50 cm oil on canvas, gallery stretcherbars.  What I like about this image is the movement of the guy and the stark contrast.  Like the Macchiaioli used.  What's that?   There is a lame article on wikipedia: Macchiaioli .  I used a palette-knife to scrape off different colored gobs of semi-dried paint from my palette, added them to smooth chunks of luxurious ivory black then liberally smeared the mess all over.  I love the 3D effect of the colored black background.

2 comments:

  1. This is nice! It is different, like you said - the 3D effect, the movement. I like it. Oooh, you are just a few days away! I hope you have time to sleep!

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  2. Hi Laura, glad you like it. I've started the little gourmandise again and am organizing the show for Dec. Did you get yours framed?

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