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| "The Artist Model Has Grubby Feet" the title is a reminder that things are rarely perfect; a beautiful model with dirty feet and parts of the painting may appear sketchy, Yet it is complete) painted 6/4/13 acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 cm I'm concidering puting this one into the Leamington Open influenced by Pre Raphaelites romance and the wonderful linear style of the Art Nouveau posters I feel I've moved on a thousand miles in a month I've been painting the figure from life, obsessed with depicting skin yet not possible without the discirplin of painting at trinity 5-10 hours a week for the last three years painting anything and everything |
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| Not Pretty 3 Acrylic on paper 29/3/13 a portrait of Jac my friend and wild life illustrator during a nasty bout of shingles effecting the optic nerve, potentially devastating for an artist The Jenny Saville book my daughter bought me for Xmas has helped me start my "Not Pretty" series I've been thinking about for a while Thanks Julia |
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| Not Pretty 1 Oil on canvas 17/3/13 portrait of my friend with MS, again potentially devastating illness. Lucian Freud inspired |
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