Showing posts with label figure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label figure. Show all posts

31 August 2016

Stop

Saying NO and STOP is a universal sign. This is the first sign you show when you want to protect yourself. As a practicing therapist I know from my private practice that saying no is one of the most important skill in one's life. 
Even though the painting says so, I wasn't a paparazzo. :-) Kwab, my model let me paint him and I am grateful for that. The challenge was the foreshortening...




oil on gesso board, 6x6 in (No. 132) 

16 June 2013

See-through 1.

It is so much fun to touch, feel, wear see-trough fabrics. And I realized how much fun to paint them. Normally I paint on panels, but this time I painted on linen. Well, it is fun the see-through fabric and  struggle to paint on this surface, gesso doesn't help much...
May be I am snobbish... 'linen is so hard for me', silk is my favorite.
And to have a photo... well... it is not the best one, you have to see-through.
No matter what, I wanted to share.


   oil on gessoboard, 30x30 cm, 12x12 in (No.63) 
NFS