Winter Figure Paintings

Here are some of the paintings I did over the winter break. I’m loving this dripping technique I’m doing and I’m excited about the potential for experimentation.

My theme with these paintings is the idea of impermanence that I talked about in the Painting Paradoxes post. I love the tension between then beautiful, physical, presence of the figure, the assertion that the figure is a product of history and yet the impermanence and fleeting nature of flesh. This painting I’m calling Impermanence and is 40″x30″. I feel it is especially successful because of the strategic deconstruction of the body allowing the background to show through. Also the ‘frame’ that makes up the breasts and face by using lighter colors allows the rest of the body to recede a bit.

I look forward to doing more paintings in this style.

The following painting is the same model, same pose, just a portrait format instead. It is also 40″x30″

This painting developed into an Adam and Eve narrative. I’m calling it “Fruit Stained” This piece is 48″x60″

This is the final painting – The model did two poses, one from which I took the reference for the feet and then the other I took the reference for the hand. I particularly like the use of color and just the fine tuning of some of my dripping technique. Compositionally, I love the repetition of the fingers and then toes as they form an arc. To me the visual “chord” of the fingers and toes needed resolution and so I added in the physical balance of the blue orb along with the color balance of a cooler tone.

Some of these paintings will appear in the Barbados and Washington exhibitions.