"Stand-Off"

10 x 10"

oil on panel
sold

I've spent the last three days working on this new painting - all the while trying to find something to binge-watch after finishing Lost.  I tried several and poo-pooed all of them before settling on The Walking Dead.  Good one to paint to, I must say.

This moment happens more than you think - a viewer stands in front of Auguste Rodin's sculpture 'Portrait of Balzac' and naturally takes the same pose.  Especially men.  It's like a stand-off.

From the Art Institute of Chicago.

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"Innocent Bystander"

12 x 12"
oil on masonite
sold

A sure bet - women and girls are mostly drawn to artworks depicting women and girls. It's what we know. Men on the other hand are drawn to structural objects, sculptures and dramatic scenes. These two are standing before Morisot's 'Woman at Her Toilette', while on the right is Renoir's 'Woman at the Piano'. Both paintings hang in the Art Institute of Chicago.

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