Oil on 12"x12" canvas. Maybe one of the most painted people? Lincoln was certainly a great man with an amazing face-a portrait painter's paradise. I began my Lincoln series around election time. Today I decided to change the background for the third and final time. I am seeking to follow intuitive impulses in painting. After talking with a friend about how to identify our path in painting, I hung up the phone and went straight to this painting and changed the background, not knowing exactly what to do, I trusted something within me knew and I let my intuitive sense lead. Colors suddenly fell back in tone and he began to appear back-lit, the colors became the faded fabric of a circus tent. The circus tent serves as metaphor for life. In this painting I see Lincoln grounded in the midst of insanity. This kind of creative process is one of the things I relish in painting. The whole activity feels balanced as right brain and left brain are valued.
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Abraham Lincoln, 2013
Oil on 12"x12" canvas. Maybe one of the most painted people? Lincoln was certainly a great man with an amazing face-a portrait painter's paradise. I began my Lincoln series around election time. Today I decided to change the background for the third and final time. I am seeking to follow intuitive impulses in painting. After talking with a friend about how to identify our path in painting, I hung up the phone and went straight to this painting and changed the background, not knowing exactly what to do, I trusted something within me knew and I let my intuitive sense lead. Colors suddenly fell back in tone and he began to appear back-lit, the colors became the faded fabric of a circus tent. The circus tent serves as metaphor for life. In this painting I see Lincoln grounded in the midst of insanity. This kind of creative process is one of the things I relish in painting. The whole activity feels balanced as right brain and left brain are valued.
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