Thursday, October 4, 2012

The Dance painting of romantic couple

The Dance  Oil on cradled wood  6" x 6"  SOLD
Painting new subject matter feels like a taking refresher course on fundamentals.  My big thing is always values.  I figure if I can get those right most everything else will work out.  ...oh, and edges.  An early art "lesson" that is still burned in my brain:  being told I wasn't ready/entitled to paint sharp edges.  (Say what?!)  That assessment stayed with me for a long time before I got serious about painting again many years later.  I see here, I mighth've sharpened some edges for better effect, but this is a good start.  I may try a few more figurative paintings.

6 comments:

  1. Nice work on this! I hope to see more of these!

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  2. It's beautiful, I love the way you captured the light coming in through the window AND the light falling across your figures!
    Joan

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  3. This is very exciting to see. I should have know, you can paint anything. Lovely paint handling, as always, plus super-awesome composition. You deal very nicely with contre jour, architecture and the figure. Hooray!

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  4. holy cow!!!! this is wonderful!! I hope you do more of this genre!!!

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  5. I can feel the intimacy of this one. : )

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  6. Just looking through your lovely blog - You really do have your own unique style. It's just lovely! But I stopped here because this one in particular caught my eye. Just love it! I think it's the soft focus effect that makes it even more intriguing :0)

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