“Quiet Silence.” Oil on Canvas Panel. 16x12 inches.
Tori, the beautiful inspiration and muse for “Quiet Silence” has been in my painting queue since April. Tori’s reference image was featured in the April 2020 #30Faces30Days Sketchy challenge. I waited a few months to paint her, because I knew the painting would be a difficult task to capture the beautiful, yet “Quiet Silence” in Tori’s image.
Tori holds some kind of yellow flower in her inspiration photo, but I knew the yellow flower did not hold as much power and impact as a single red rose. I believe painting Tori with a red rose helped me with the psychology of the painting. While painting I could feel her quiet silence, which for me, is the true subject of the painting.
As always, I hope you enjoy “Quiet Silence” as much as I enjoyed making it.
Following is a 22-second video of “The Making of Quiet Silence.”