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"The Diva", Acrylic on paper, 14" x 20" image
Price: $850
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I painted this artwork yesterday, starting at 8:00 a.m. and finishing at 5:00 p.m. I had to meet a deadline for the Northwest Watercolor Society. I entered with one hour to spare! Several times, I almost quit in the midst of this painting, but my granddaughter, said, "No, grandma, you can do it!", so I continued. Constantly, I tell students that very thing. If we just keep going past the "ugly teenage" stage, lots of times, these can be your best paintings. I really listened to the painting as I worked. For instance, the blue streak coming from the left side was in the underpainting, and I liked how it connected the background to her dress, so I left it in. Also the abstract shapes behind her head were formed in the first layer also, so when I negative painted around them, the shapes were very interesting.
This painting started with squirting several colors on prepared paper, and then scraping it with a credit card. It's a great way to get exciting colors in the underpainting. I'm teaching in The Villages, FL from January 25 - 29th, and this is one of the subjects, "Painting like Gustav Klimt". It's really a fun technique! If interested in coming, contact Beverly Hennessy at
www.thevillagesartworkshops.com
bbaug97@aol.com 352-572-5317
Gorgeous! Love all the texture :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sheila. It was fun to do!
DeleteThis is beautiful Karen!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Rebecca! You know I love Gustav Klimt's paintings, so it was fun to recreate his texture effects, done my way.
DeleteAwesome, and I love your explanation of how you did the background and incorporated it into the painting.
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