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| The Party is an 18"x24" acrylic on canvas, painted
in response to an artist call for a fundraising auction during the run of the
play, 'Absurd Person Singular', playing at the Arts Club on Granville Island.
The play is about a party so I ran with the theme. |
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1. The first thing I pictured was a woman wearing this slinky black number. If you look realllllly closely, you can maybe make out the faint scrapes in the paint, outlining her head, and the outline of what will be her friend. Sometimes I take advantage of paint when it's still wet, by scraping in a sketch of what I want, and if it all goes awry, I just run my thumb over it and it's back to just wet paint. |
 2. As you can see, this is her rear view. Her friend popped out of my brush just as easily, because with the 'scraped' outline, I was just filling in color. Sometimes paintings just floor me with how easily they flow. |
 3. Here, the only thing I have added is the floor. You can still see the vertical lines in the floor, where I hadn't painted the whole canvas aqua. This ends up working well, as, from these steps right to the finished painting, it adds a sense of depth and shadow to the floor. |
 4. Now it's getting interesting... I add stairs and some lines to start other rooms. This painting is building itself, as, all I started with was two women in gowns. Their surroundings could have been anything from plain black to an ocean liner and anything in between. I had no idea, and put zero thought into it. I let the brush do the thinkin' :) |
 5. Ah! The party is always in the kitchen! ;) I add a 'fold' at the lower back on the blonde woman's dress and find that it really adds a good touch to the fabric. |
 6. I highlight the steps and add folks in the other room, and "sketch" in with a dirty brush, what will be some sort of table...at this point I'm not sure. |
 7. Added a fancy blue carpet ;) I got the design from scraping the other end of my brush into the wet paint. Gotta work fast with acrylic, as it sure doesn't stay wet for long! That table is shaping into something. Also, starting to work on the face. . . |
 8. ...Gettin' there. I add a small chandelier in the hall behind them and some pictures on the wall. I highlight the dark hair, and you see that shadow in the blue carpet, going light to dark? That's from the previous yellow floor showing underneath, but i decide it looks like a shadow from lighting so I leave it there. The table's blue now :) Oh, and more folks have arrived! |
| 9. Now that's changed a bit since the last photo, heh? ;) Well I showed the painting to the boyfriend and he said, 'It's not that common that there would be three floor colors'. Good point, so I make it red, and leave the blue carpet, and turns out I like it so much better that way. It suddenly occurs to me that the other room doesn't look 'finished' because it needs a darker wall color, and I love love love the burgundy. It sure warms up the painting. I tweak the ladies (oh my) with more detail and I add the womens' shadows to the floor. I am diggin' this painting! Click on it :) |
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