"Katrina"
acrylic on canvas
I've had four 16x20 gallery wrapped canvases sitting in the dining room for a while now, just waiting for me to paint portraits of the four of us. My little family. When I came upon this Modigliani portrait last week, I finally knew where to begin.
Modigliani
portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne
1919
It reminded me instantly of this webcam shot my daughter took of herself a few months ago:portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne
1919
When I looked online for a photo of Modigliani's common-law wife, Jeanne, it was so fascinating to see her photos compared to her portraits.
Jeanne Hebuterne
Katrina
I love portraits that contain the essence of a person, without looking exactly like the person. I like to see clear evidence of the hand of the artist interpreting reality.
It was a real challenge not to add too much detail to this painting. I really had to hold myself back from adding more realistic details, like I did many years ago when I did this charcoal sketch of Beethoven. I did this sketch for my daughter when she was about 8, had just started taking piano lessons and loved classical music, especially Beethoven and Mozart.
It was a real challenge not to add too much detail to this painting. I really had to hold myself back from adding more realistic details, like I did many years ago when I did this charcoal sketch of Beethoven. I did this sketch for my daughter when she was about 8, had just started taking piano lessons and loved classical music, especially Beethoven and Mozart.
So my next challenge is to paint my husband and son. I have no idea how those will turn out, but I'm excited to get started!
You can't imagine how significant this series of portraits is to me. I'm actually going to hang these on our walls. For my whole life I've been surrounded by original art, but it's been the oils and watercolors my father did. He was a design engineer by profession, but art has been his life-long hobby. Our home is filled with his art, and I'm finally ready to add my art to our home in a significant way.
Having my father's art around me my whole life has been both a blessing and a curse, as one of my favorite TV characters, Adrian Monk, likes to say. It's been a blessing to be surrounded by so much creativity and art. And it's been a curse in that it kept me from pursuing art seriously, until now. But maybe it's not too late, after all.
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You can't imagine how significant this series of portraits is to me. I'm actually going to hang these on our walls. For my whole life I've been surrounded by original art, but it's been the oils and watercolors my father did. He was a design engineer by profession, but art has been his life-long hobby. Our home is filled with his art, and I'm finally ready to add my art to our home in a significant way.
Having my father's art around me my whole life has been both a blessing and a curse, as one of my favorite TV characters, Adrian Monk, likes to say. It's been a blessing to be surrounded by so much creativity and art. And it's been a curse in that it kept me from pursuing art seriously, until now. But maybe it's not too late, after all.
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