This is the first painting I did when I was toying with the idea of small, quickly executed works. Since then the work has become a little bigger, and a good deal more resolved. However, what I enjoy about this one is the briskness of execution and the relative flatness of the shapes. I am always striving for a balance between the illusion of space (realism) and surface pattern (abstraction). It's a struggle that never ends.
Fine art prints of this painting are available here.
oil on stretched canvas, 6 x 4 inches, 2008
#26
Charles, this painting is real as it gets!
ReplyDeleteLooks like "she looked" you caught her at a
none pose moment, and painted her.
Wonderful. I'm not sure it happend that way,
but it looks spontaneously.