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Painting from life, painting from sketches…  the landscape of the body.

 

 

Far Right:  Back, 11”x14” oil on paper

 

Right:  Holding In, 11”x14” oil on paper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Right: Thought, 7”x10” oil on paper

 

Far right: Standing, 8”x12” oil on paper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Left: Stretch, 11”x14” oil on paper

 

Middle: Kneeling, 5”x7” oil on clayboard

 

Right: Curve, 5”x7” oil on clayboard

                                                                                  

 

 

Model with Red Robe, 8”x24” oil over acrylic on canvas

 

Standing Female Nude Gesture, 5”x7” oil on paper

 

Arms Contorted, 5”x7” oil on paper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inverted Meghan, 5”x7” oil on paper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                    

He loves me not (Juliet), 11”x14” oil on paper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christin Studies, each 9”x12” acrylic on canvas panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above left: Wind; right: Rock

 

Left: Sunbather, all 9”x12” oil on masonite

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dana Standing, 10”x20” oil on canvas

 

Dana Sitting, 11”x14” oil on canvas

 

Dana Wistful, 11”x14” oil on canvas                                     

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dana Protective, 6”x6” oil on canvas panel; Dana Thinking, 6”x6” oil on canvas panel; Dana Legs Crossed, 6”x6” oil on canvas panel

 

 

 

Male Nude  Reclined, 5”x7” oil on canvas panel

 

Male Nude Reclined 2, 9”x12” oil on canvas panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buck Reclined 3, 9”x12” oil on canvas panel

 

Male Nude Reclined 4, 11”x14” oil on canvas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Male Nude studies, 5”x7” oil on canvas panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Male Nude studies, 6”x6” oil on canvas panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Male Nude Foreshortened, 11”x14” oil on canvas

 

Facing the Light, 11”x14” oil on canvas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Male Nude Lounging, 12”x12” oil on canvas

 

Male Nude Twisting, 12”x12” oil on canvas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seated Female Nude, 6”x6” oil on canvas panel

 

Curled Down, 6”x6” oil on canvas panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solitude Standing, 6”x6” oil on canvas

 

Female Nude Casual, 6”x6” oil on canvas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Female Nude Foreshortened, 11”x14” oil on canvas; Arms Out, 11”x14” oil on canvas; Crystal Curled Up, 11”x14” oil on canvas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Languid, 11”x14” oil on canvas; Napping, 11”x14” oil on canvas

 

 

Left: Standing Back, 6”x6” oil on canvas panel

 

Right: Portrait of the Model, 11”x14” oil on canvas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beautiful Gesture, 6”x6” oil on canvas panel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Four Graces, 11”x14” oil on clayboard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portraits clothed or otherwise done by commission…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sumi-e inkwash brush paintings of the figure on rice paper

 

“When the hand, the eye, and the heart arrive together, there under the brush, the spirit is expressed.” – from a T’ang period Chinese brush painting

 

Through understatement, suggestion, and concentration on the essential, the sumi-e artist expresses the spirit of nature rather than transcribes its precise appearance.  Traditional Chinese and Japanese brush painting on rice paper has been practiced for centuries using inspiration from the natural world.  Sumi-e brush and inkwash has become my favorite medium during our Wednesday night drawing groups at the Firehouse Gallery in Oak Bluffs.  Drawing is like calligraphy.  The immediacy of this medium is perfect for drawing from a live model, as the artist must work swiftly and with confidence, capturing essential marks to express form, volume, and emotion.

 

 

    

 

    

 

    

 

    

 

    

 

    

 

    

 

    

 

    

 

    

 

    

 

          

 

           

 

 

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