Happiness, 30″ x 40″
A woman came into my booth at the Eureka Springs Fall Art show looking at my paintings of the girls with big eyes. She said something to me about them looking like hybrid children and asked me something like whether I had painted them of hybrid children or if they just [...]
Happiness. Staring you in the face. Yours for the taking.
I was at an art show and a friend I hadn’t seen in a while came by and told me I looked unhappy. I said I was doing okay. He said I wasn’t smiling all the time and I told him I hadn’t been as happy [...]
I have painted in short spurts on this painting since posting the last photo. I find it interesting that so much time has actually been spent looking; it seems the simpler the composition, the more crucial each element becomes to the whole. I continued to layer on the greens in the hills, [...]
In my last all night painting session, I softened the facial features a bit and defined the hand a little more by adding dark spaces and highlights. I decided to dress her rather plainly in navy blue with a white collar, so as not to detract from the focus of the piece which, [...]
I added another layer of pink to the background, making the top darker and redder than before. I worked on developing the facial features and hand, striving for some realism in the hand where the girl is in contact with the outer world and less and less as you approach her eyes. I sketched in [...]
This is is the first painting I have done without any photo references in a long time and at 30″ x 40″ is larger than I usually work. I started out by unwrapping the canvas, placing it on the easel and rubbing its surface with my hands until a pattern emerged. Then I began to [...]
