4 x 4"oil on masonite
sold
I am so thrilled with this painting - the marriage of olive greens with deep reds and blacks. After I finished this, I jumped right into using those tones with two other small pieces - seeing if I could resist adding more, which was tough. I can't plan and paint. As soon as I concentrate on color wheels, I get too rigid. Best to leave it all up to intuition.
added note....... the article in Southwest Art Magazine, which is in their October issue, is online as well. A big thank-you to the editors and writer for the featured article about my work. Makes me very proud.
added note....... the article in Southwest Art Magazine, which is in their October issue, is online as well. A big thank-you to the editors and writer for the featured article about my work. Makes me very proud.
Couldn't help thinking that this guy (who looks too sensitive to have a mug shot) may in a few decades look like No. 23.
ReplyDeleteYour olive green really works well. Someone once told me that incorporating green in skin tones was difficult. You make it look easy.
Great article, Karin!
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading the article. Congratulations! Your work is amazing! I don't think there is any piece that I don't just love. :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd PROUD you should be, what an honor and well deserved accomplishment.
ReplyDeleteThe olive greens, flesh tones and reds in this painting are "yummy", although I'm sure this young man wouldn't want to be referred to in such a manner!
I am so glad and so happy for you. Every new portrait as the new page in your story book. And sign "sold" warms my heart. Go, Lady!
ReplyDeleteWhat you said about intuition is so true. If you could bottle the ability to go with intuition you would realy have something. Seems like walking a careful line between putting down exactly what you see and intuitively painting is the trick.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could be as prolific as you..how do you do it?
The article is great. Nice to learn more about you, Karin.
ReplyDeleteYour art is amazing, happy to know you.
Very good painting! I think every number higher is a progressiv in quality and expression. Very well sine! I'm looking foreward to the rest! :-)
ReplyDeleteVery nice article on you and your artwork. Thank you for supplying the link.
ReplyDeleteBRAVO!!
ReplyDeleteSometimes intuition spins faster (and better) than the color wheel.
Am really enjoying your mugshot series. Love the colors you use in each of them - you're so right about intuition - and you do have it and use it well. Wonderful article!
ReplyDeleteoh so true for me to, although your intuition is way better tuned than mine! brilliant series, I am mesmerised
ReplyDeleteSo true on this one too what you spoke about last post - incorporating the "feel" of this subject. I also like what appears to be your limited color palettes.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the article!
Looks like a Zorn palette, so great for portraits. Subtle, harmonious and gorgeous piece Karin.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the SWA article!
Beautiful. Sensitive. And looks like a much bigger painting!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to my SW Art Mag to read the article!
Wow! Really lovely...this is my favorite because of how sensitively you handled the features. The colors are wonderful and congrats on the article. Wish I had the intuition you have....maybe that is something that just develops with practice. I hope so.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I noticed was the red green compliment.
ReplyDeleteThese are just getting better and better.
Well done! Congrats on the article, so deserving. I love your work, Karin!
ReplyDeleteKaren, Your work is beautiful and bold. Love the brushwork and your great sense of color! So you are in Atlanta? I'm in Birmingham, AL. We are practically neighbors :)
ReplyDeleteI just read the article in Southwest Art. As you found artist's websites that inspired you and made you say "that's what I want to do". Now your website is doing the same for me and others. Love your work!
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