Two unfinished paintings this week!
Work In Progress. “Elephant Love.” Oil on Canvas Panel. 24x18 inches.
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“Angela Davis.” Women Who Shatter Barriers Portrait No. 11. Oil & collage on Canvas Panel. 16x12 inches. ( I apologize for all the glare on this image! The combination of wet paint + lights = GLARE!
“ Angela Davis” Women Who Shatter Barriers Series Portrait No. 11.
“Elephant Love.”
“Angela Davis.”
I approached the “Angela Davis” quote part of the portrait a bit differently than the previous “Women” series portraits. Usually, I create a background image with a quote as a digital image in Photoshop. I then print the background, cure it, and adhere the background image to a canvas panel and then paint the portrait. Well, that whole process is time-consuming and tedious. This week I just wanted to get straight to painting Ms. Davis’s portrait! So, I left a space on the canvas to adhere Ms. Davis’s typeset quote. I’m not sure how this will work out, hopefully, it will look the way I have it in my head! It’s almost impossible for me to hand-letter a quote on the canvas because I use slow-drying oil paints and well I am terrible at handwritten printing! So, we’ll see how adhering the typeset quote to the canvas works out!
“Elephant Love.”
For some time, I have had in my head that I wanted to paint an elephant! Upon researching about a gazillion rights-free photos of elephants, I decided on a reference photo from Unsplash by Craig Pretorius. Elephants are fascinating creatures. So prehistoric looking! All those wrinkles! And so social and smart! Several years ago I read two great books (fiction) with elephants as main characters. “Water for Elephants.” by Sara Gruen and “Leaving Time.” by Jodi Picoult. If you need a good read, I recommend both books!
I only had time to paint one of the elephants in my composition. I am happy so far. I’m having lots of fun with the color of the elephant’s skin and all the “stuff” on their skin! Ha! All those wrinkles!
Hope you like the painting so far.