A new painting:
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Queen
2020, oil on linen, 10" x 8"
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In the original drawing the woman was alone and wearing a party hat resembling a crown. The title Queen remains from that first image, even though she lost her hat and gained two admiring men. As always, the evolution came about naturally as the painting developed, and was not based on any meaningful thought beyond what was intuitively needed. I still like the original drawing and may return to it again.
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Queen, drawing #1
2019, pencil on graph paper, 9 1/2" x 7" |
Queen was finished seven weeks ago, and since then I've been working on a composition of a woman with two children, five pears, and a bird:
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Collecting Pears, in progress
34" x 22", oil on linen
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| detail, ca. 5" x 7" |
The bird was inspired by the catbirds that nest every spring in the dense patch of knotweed outside my studio, and it's the first one I've painted since 1996:
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Woman with Bird
5 1/2" x 4", oil on linen, 1996
Private collection, Massachusetts
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I adore Queen, the colors, the composition, the adoring men who at first I saw as demons, lol
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