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Royal Dreams, the Long Road

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She’s sleeping after the long road I travelled to finish this painting. Fabric, flesh, fabric, flesh, it was a dance back and forth, until at last I could say she was done. The painting rotated 360 degrees, starting with her facing face down, then tall, and finally facing upwards. The background morphed from rug to floor to black to finally, this royal blue oriental patterned … Continue reading

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Pale Forest: Contrast in Color and Time

Pale Forest | 22 x 28 | oil on canvas

Painting skin tones seems simple, yet is unbelievably complex, like trying to put together a million piece jigsaw puzzle that is almost all one color. I think I was born in the wrong century (and continent). My idea of an artist would be to have been born Louise Elisabeth Vigee LeBrun, French Neoclassical painter and portrait painter to Marie Antoinette. By the time she was … Continue reading

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