Showing posts with label 100x120cm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 100x120cm. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 February 2013

Help me decide the title of this painting

I've thought of three titles.
Tell me which one you like best and if you have another idea leave a comment.

Cruising 
is the title voted, thanks for participating


100x120 cm oil on canvas

This will be either in my show in May or in the salon in June.

I working with a different technique than normal, less alla prima. Last week my studio neighbor asked me when I was going to stop painting by numbers. I didn't flare up, offended, but I did try to justify myself.  
He said I could do better.  So I thought about it. 
He graduated from the Beaux Arts de Paris and is teaching.  I may not like his work and think he's a failure of an artist because he's a teacher. This is a rotten unfair opinion, life is different for everyone, he's younger than I, has a few kids.  I can't consider him a failure because he is teaching painting but I do.  
I thought about what he said and I like him because he says what he thinks straight in your face. 
I decided to try to paint differently and here is the result.


Thanks Phillip, you've helped me free my brush.  
You're a teacher who see people's qualities.  I appreciate your opinion.  Now get your ass in the studio and paint.


Wednesday, 16 January 2013

2nd painting 2013

No title yet
100X120cm oil on canvas

I hope to finish this on Friday.  No idea what title to put on it, any suggestions?



This is what it looked like Friday last



And here it was Thursday a week ago.

I love my underpaintings.  I wasn't planning so much contrast in the final version so may tone up the shadows.  What I do like is that you really step into the painting.  I know it will bring depth into the room of the person who buys it.  Like a window.