24" x 24" oil on panel.
Norma is my grandma's friend. She's married to Don Levers who has no front teeth. I really fell in love with Norma while painting her! she's so cool. I haven't seen her for several years.
I wanted to take the idea of Process painting we did in Elizabeth's class (letting chance choose composition, colours, etc) except apply it to a representational painting as opposed to an abstract image. So I took my mom's bowling team photo from 1975, put a grid on it, and drew cards to see which square on the grid I would paint, and then drew another card for the scale. So this is actually #9 out of 9. Eight more to go! It'll be good practice for representational painting skills, anyhow. Sorry for the crappy photo doc. Any critiques are welcome!
Oh you can actually see the original photo on the top left of the blog.
2 comments:
Denise, I love it! Keep posting them.
Did you look into the history of group photos at all? I'm totally curious.
Thanks Amy!
No, I totally wanted to research that, but had no clue where to start, any ideas? I think it would be really fascinating!
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