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Monday, September 19, 2011

Louise and Iris, Painters of the Night

This is one of my most favorite acrylics of late, of the ones I've done at the Firehouse. I believe the size was 24 x 24". I love the palette: burnt sienna, yellow ochre, dioaxine violet, thalo blue, and alizarin crimson. Iris was painting with a wrist brace. I wanted Iris to be a silouette, but I was never able to control the urge to depict all of those rich and darker shades my eyes were still able to discern even in the darkness. With Louise, I just wanted to do justice to her million dollar hair color. The easels were a pain, but I finished at home from memory.

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for posting this great painting. It is so much fun to see Iris and Louise painting away.

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  2. Nice unexpected colors and shapes in this.

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  3. I think I like the way you used the square composition, the line of the easel (almost) parallel with the edge of the canvas.

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