For the past few days, woven into the spaces between daily activities—making the bed, taking walks in the great outdoors, chopping vegetables, tutoring, reading, paying bills, shopping for groceries, resolving a glitch with an online order—I've had chances to hang out with this guy, often chatting companionably, sometimes lost in our separate thoughts, periodically venturing into artistic tomfoolery, and more than once exploring differences of opinion.
He has strong integrity, a clear way of being in the world, a reliable compass guiding him.
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| The Friend Who Isn't Afraid to Hold a Fierce Optnion and Later Change His Mind 9 x 12"; acrylic and pastels on drawing paper abstract face 2021 $70 |
6 comments:
I absolutely adore your faces! I can feel this guys strong opionons ;-)!
woo hoo! thanks for your absolutely adoring these faces —— I still can't quite believe I'm painting them but I'm grateful that I am. I keep on trusting the journey.
That one clear eye! This one has such strong geometry! That bit of white on the collar on the right is EVERYTHING! I so love this series. xoxoxoxo
gosharoonies, it is so much fun to get such encouraging and helpful feedback on the faces I am painting. As I keep saying, whole new adventure for me. I remember from the get-go being so astonished by the portraits and figures of people and animals and other living critters and fairies and so on, thinking, I could never.
Again, the think bright lines. Just lead my eye from here to there. I am in awe of your varied talents. Or talent to vary. xoxoxox :)
Fun that you commented on the thick bright lines, Sheila. They are my original blind contour sketch lines, and they don't really make 'sense' in terms of realistic lighting, but that's what I love about them —— they keep this painting more playful and thought-provoking, and they leave some of the roughness of the sketching layer to contrast with more 'finished' layers.
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