OliveOyl
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Well, I'm being quite the little chatterbox these days!
And because I like to TALK about my process and thoughts, beware of an incoming boatload of boring words...
Unlike most of you (it seems), what I mostly do are figures, but they’re not usually realistically painted. Like, I don’t “do” portraits. I also think its odd that I’ve latched onto The Humans as my painting subject matter considering that when I take photos, I never take pictures of people. Not interested. I don’t generally like to read/watch biographies. And the times I’ve been in therapy was because people in my life have gotten on my nerves in such a way that I didn’t know how to deal with them. TMI? Basically, I’m kind of antisocial (but not shy at all) and I just usually find people...annoying. Plus, I’m very mad and disgusted at our species these days. Sorry, I’ll never win any Miss Congeniality contests and I don’t revere, adore or gush very well. (Just putting that out there for those of you who don’t know me...)
Anywaaaaaayyyyyyy......during the last 37 years of painting, I really never tried to do a simple “serious,” regular, portrait-style painting. So I decided I'd find internet pictures (probably a lawsuit waiting to happen so...shhhhh!), and chose 20 women who, IMO, had interesting faces. I tried to find young and old and different races and types. I painted them in the usual way I like to paint, which is “stylized,” meaning....sometimes, I’ll get lost in lines or shapes and focus on that as being the most important part. I didn’t want to have to deal with skin tones so they’re all “the same,” and I knew I wanted to use a very flat smooth liquid acrylic for the backgrounds, in blue(ish) tones. I used 10x10 raw basswood panels (I think maybe the smallest works I’ve ever done) with those deep 3” gallery sides. It’s (they’re) called “BlueBirds.”
They say: Tweet! Chirp!
I say: Feel free to throw in your own “face work.” I don’t mean bodies that have faces attached...but rather, where the focus is on THE FACE. I’d love to see and hear about YOUR people and why you wanted to paint them. Or...why you don’t.
And because I like to TALK about my process and thoughts, beware of an incoming boatload of boring words...
Unlike most of you (it seems), what I mostly do are figures, but they’re not usually realistically painted. Like, I don’t “do” portraits. I also think its odd that I’ve latched onto The Humans as my painting subject matter considering that when I take photos, I never take pictures of people. Not interested. I don’t generally like to read/watch biographies. And the times I’ve been in therapy was because people in my life have gotten on my nerves in such a way that I didn’t know how to deal with them. TMI? Basically, I’m kind of antisocial (but not shy at all) and I just usually find people...annoying. Plus, I’m very mad and disgusted at our species these days. Sorry, I’ll never win any Miss Congeniality contests and I don’t revere, adore or gush very well. (Just putting that out there for those of you who don’t know me...)
Anywaaaaaayyyyyyy......during the last 37 years of painting, I really never tried to do a simple “serious,” regular, portrait-style painting. So I decided I'd find internet pictures (probably a lawsuit waiting to happen so...shhhhh!), and chose 20 women who, IMO, had interesting faces. I tried to find young and old and different races and types. I painted them in the usual way I like to paint, which is “stylized,” meaning....sometimes, I’ll get lost in lines or shapes and focus on that as being the most important part. I didn’t want to have to deal with skin tones so they’re all “the same,” and I knew I wanted to use a very flat smooth liquid acrylic for the backgrounds, in blue(ish) tones. I used 10x10 raw basswood panels (I think maybe the smallest works I’ve ever done) with those deep 3” gallery sides. It’s (they’re) called “BlueBirds.”
They say: Tweet! Chirp!
I say: Feel free to throw in your own “face work.” I don’t mean bodies that have faces attached...but rather, where the focus is on THE FACE. I’d love to see and hear about YOUR people and why you wanted to paint them. Or...why you don’t.
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