12x9 oil on panelThis hip young lady is looking at a Picasso painting called "Bathers in a Forest" at the MOMA. The bathers are kinked and angled and the girl's stance seemed to echo that as she stepped in close to examine his work.
I thought I'd show a close up of some of my brushwork on this one. You can click below for an enlarged version. Today felt really good - once I got started. (late)
Purchase info will follow next week.
Kinky - detail
8x10 oil on panel
Sold
This is a commission I did for a collector in NY (Hi D.S.!) The painting is a gift for her mother's birthday. They are from Wyeth country and this painting is a favorite of hers. Mine too.
6x6 oil on panel
$100 + $12 s/h - sold
I am winding down with this series. The last couple I will post were painted at the end of last week. Now I am finding less time to paint. My daughter is out of school, has the flu (joy) and we are going to be traveling shortly. Heads up... beach scenes coming.
This woman is gazing at Toulouse-Lautrec's painting La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge in the MOMA. I really admire Lautrecs work - both he and Degas - for their interesting cropping and compositions. I think I lean towards composing work in a similar way.
6x6 oil on panel
$100 + $12 s/h - sold
Ok, I'm sorry about the title. But it cracked me up.
This couple is looking at Jackson Pollack's painting One: Number 31 in the MOMA. A lot of people rather think Pollack was pulling one over on the public with his artwork, but I really do like it. I like the energy he created. And I imagine it was a very freeing way to paint. Sometime I must try it just for fun.
6x6 oil on panel
$100 + $12 s/h - sold
This young woman looked so similar to Wyeth's Christina that I thought they had a connection in some spiritual way. The hair, the clothes, the gaze. Wyeth's painting is so powerful yet so simple. I really admire that.
10x8 oil on panel, framed in gold
Ask Russell Collection Fine Art about this painting.
This was like therapy for me today. We've had the flu in the house and while I have been lucky (knock on wood) to not get it, I have been nursing and cleaning a lot. So while my two invalids were resting today I managed to paint this. I approached it a little differently than normal, painted more slowly and really got absorbed in it. It felt very good.
The woman here is filling her field of vision with Barnett Newman's "Vir Heroicus Sublimis" (Man, heroic and sublime.)
7x5 oil on panel$100 + $11 s/h - sold
6x6 oil on panel$100 + $11 s/h - soldI liked just the silhouettes of the couple looking at this large Picasso painting in the MOMA. His painting is Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
7x5 oil on panel
$100 + $11 s/h -
sold
I think I will just use this text from the MOMA on this painting: Redolent of 1950s glamour, the face in Gold Marilyn Monroe is much like the star herself—high gloss, yet transient; bold, yet vulnerable; compelling, yet elusive. Surrounded by a void, it is like the fadeout at the end of a movie.
NOTE: I looked at this painting again this morning (Nov. 1) and did not like it... the floor was wrong among other things. So I reworked it a bit and I am much more pleased with it. That is one problem with painting and posting. No time to live with the work and be certain I nailed it.
7x5 oil on panel
$100 + $11 s/h - sold
A young lady viewing "Bathers in a Forest" by Picasso in the MOMA.
6x8 oil on panel
$150 + $11 s/h - sold
I've always been drawn to this painting by Wyeth. The young woman appears to be in distress to me. Such a mood he created. But here I've painted her some friends who are as eager to understand her as I am. It was particularly serendipitous that Christina's windblown hair and belt matched the style of the young lady viewing her in the MOMA in NY.
