Thoughts on Painting
Posted on 5/23/2012 4:55:57 PM
By Christine Marx - christinemarxoriginals.com
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Pink Roses in Blue Vase
I get a lot of requests to see work in progress. I am usually really bad about photographing as I go along but this time the set up started at a gallery (Timmons Gallery) where I started this painting as a demo, so I took pictures in the beginning. It was a wonderful place to paint with fantastic lighting.
Here is the original set up in the gallery.
Here is my easel before starting. This was the night after my champagne reception so my work was still hanging throughout the gallery. Behind the easel are two of my pieces and extra roses to play around with. It's funny, the pitcher that the roses are in is the same one that I used in the large Red Roses still life directly behind it. It was a gift from my daughter Alyssa.
So I painted at Timmons for a few hours and then had the pleasure of an out of town artist, whose work I love, Christine Drewyer, stop in to the gallery. I had a lovely conversation with her about painting and color and her work and my work and by the time I looked at my watch it was time to pack up.
Here is the set up after I moved it to my studio and spent all weekend away from it. It was very warm, and my poor roses drooped quite a bit. But I left them there to be able to observe color (not shape)
Now I am almost done. I am very happy with the container and the bottom half of the painting.
Here it is, really almost done. I was not happy with how much space the table took up at the bottom (I cut it off in this picture, it was much longer!) so....
I cut the table off a bit by putting in shadow at the bottom. I like the balance in the final painting a lot more. I also added some leaves to the right side in front of the far rose. It was coming forward too much. The leaves pushed the rose back a bit and softened a spot that wasn't working.
So, that's it for this painting! I hope you like it. I plan on doing a more detailed progression with the next one. It's nice to be able to look back and see how subtle changes make a big difference in the finished painting.
Posted on 5/13/2012 11:20:22 AM
By Christine Marx - christinemarxoriginals.com
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This Mother's Day, as my insatiable interest in all things "art" continues, I spent some time on the computer this morning looking at paintings of "Mother and Child" on a google search. It was a fascinating look at how different countries and cultures portray mothers and children through the ages. One thing I did find in almost all of the images was the look of comfort that was on both the mother and the child's faces.
I find myself so fortunate to have experienced both of these things: having a mother who has through my lifetime offered comfort and safety and love and constant encouragement, and also to BE a mother to three amazing daughters. I look at these pictures and remember the sense of total peace when holding each of my daughters when they were little and snuggly and smelled of Baby Magic: fast forward to big hugs and kisses given when they come home from college each summer. I simultaneously remember the comfort of my mother's arms and being totally at peace and safe with her arms around me. Her endless encouragement and loving words when I felt I couldn't do something have kept me going more often than she knows.
So I would like to share with you some of these famous, and some not so famous, images that stir something in my soul when I look at them...
Three Ages of Woman - Gustav Klimt
Frederick Goodall
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/mother-with-child-padmakar-kappagantula.html
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Edward Verschaffelt |
Louise Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun Self Portrait with Daughter
Happy Mother's Day!
