"Dame de la Terre"
16"x20" acrylic on canvas.
$150
This painting began as a landscape that was going terribly wrong so I started making swirles in it an then I decided to do a portrait. This is a fictional woman inspired by a work from Aurel Baesu. I will show the painting I used for reference as well as some of his other works in my next post. I painted wet in wet, taking away paint (subtractive) to obtain the shading. There is some gold metallic pigment mostly on the face and edges of the painting which is not apparent in the photos. This metallic material as well as all other materials used are archival. The picture above was photographed using a flash and is representative of the painting when viewed in sunlight.
The tile Dame de la Terre (Lady of the Earth) seemed appropriate given that it started out as a landscape. This is my first portrait painting. I think it is interesting to note that not more than a few weeks ago I learned from my mother how people would complain that they didn't like the use of green tones for skin color in my grandfathers paintings. He painted a lot of portraits many of which I was exposed to growing up. He has been a major inspiration for my art. At some point I will provide more information about him. His name was Paavo Airola.
This picture shows that it has a very high gloss finnish
I took this picture with morning diffused sunlight and no flash. I carfuly adjusted the camera settings to get a picture that looked just like what I was seeing.
Signed and dated of course.
