Showing posts with label figurative painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label figurative painting. Show all posts
Monday, October 10, 2011
Old Woman of the Sea
Old Woman of the Sea, 35.5cm x 39.5cm, 14" x 15.5", India ink, conte crayon, oils on 100lb archival paper.
It's not that I paint, but that the painting paints me. It changes me somehow. It's not that I paint something but rather that I paint what's changing in me through the process of creating the painting.
Old Women of the Sea: the old woman is in the ocean; the ocean moves through her; she is the ocean. Like a mother ocean.
A figurative landscape, or, rather, seascape.
I painted her in near darkness last night, in a dimly lit room. The colours looked almost the same on the paper - I only knew which was which because of the names on the tubes, which I could just make out. As I painted, I trusted my intuitive aesthetic senses.
In the midnight air I went to the table I've set up for painting while my children are away (at their Dad's - it's Canadian Thanksgiving and my half of the family wined and dined on Saturday night). I chose a sketch. And began painting, hardly being able to see what I was doing. Doing it by intuitive sense. And I wanted to let go of the naysayers in my head, and paint with an emotional clarity.
And I guess that's perhaps that's why I have to be alone to work. My children's presence or absence has nothing to do with it. I'm learning who I am when I paint. Or being taught by my painting. It's a very intimate, private process - until it's finished, and then you can show the world.
I'm painting some of the sketches I did at a life drawing drop-in session at TSA (Toronto School of Art) in August.
The original sketch as I did it in the life drawing session
that I went to with my niece. If you click on it, you'll go to the album.
Lifedrawing6, 28cm x 35.5cm, 11"x14", India ink, conte crayon, 100lb archival paper.
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Theatrics of the Age
Ancient Grecian, red ochre of pottery, a Venus on a pedestal, the theatrics of the age.
Theatrics of the Age, 25.5cm x 30.5cm, 10" x 12", India ink, conte crayon, oil on 100lb archival paper. The original sketch all but gone in the painting, what looks like conte crayon sweeps is oil paint swept on a large dry brush.
Today I painted some of the sketches I did at a life drawing drop-in session at TSA (Toronto School of Art) in August.
An earlier version of the painting.
The original sketch as I did it in the life drawing session
that I went to with my niece. You can also view the whole album.
Lifedrawing9, 28cm x 35.5cm, 11"x14", India ink,
conte crayon, 100lb archival paper.
Theatrics of the Age, 25.5cm x 30.5cm, 10" x 12", India ink, conte crayon, oil on 100lb archival paper. The original sketch all but gone in the painting, what looks like conte crayon sweeps is oil paint swept on a large dry brush.
Today I painted some of the sketches I did at a life drawing drop-in session at TSA (Toronto School of Art) in August.
An earlier version of the painting.
The original sketch as I did it in the life drawing session
that I went to with my niece. You can also view the whole album.
Lifedrawing9, 28cm x 35.5cm, 11"x14", India ink,
conte crayon, 100lb archival paper.
Old Woman
As I painted, I thought of the blue, and of sticks. And it is like she is surrounded by a nest, isn't it.
Old Woman, 2011, 25.5cm x 32cm, 10" x 12.5", oil on archival paper.
Today I painted one of the sketches I did at a life drawing drop-in session at TSA (Toronto School of Art) in August - one I hadn't posted.
Old Woman, 2011, 25.5cm x 32cm, 10" x 12.5", oil on archival paper.
Today I painted one of the sketches I did at a life drawing drop-in session at TSA (Toronto School of Art) in August - one I hadn't posted.
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