Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Moving forward


 Calvados Drinkers · A spontaneous initial study done in acrylic on paper

Calvados Drinkers · The finished painting in oil on primed Masonite. 

My aims: an intense confrontation of the viewer intended to jolt him or her into burrowing into the psyche of the two people portrayed. Means: aggressive color, sensuous impasto.

1 comment:

  1. Another means of achieving that intense confrontation: jamming the two people as tightly as I could into the compositional space.

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