Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Marie Lou, the redhead


This is a portrait I did last summer in the main parc of Sherbrooke, Jacques Cartier parc. I confess I like readheads - they are an interesting challenge for a painter. Auburn hair could be quite difficult to paint... Toulouse-Lautrec has a few portraits and nudes with "The Englishwoman from Dover" (the legend says he was totally in love with that one...) Myself, I didn't have the time to fall in love - and neither did I have the inclination (being shamefully monogame - almost 26 years of marriage with the same woman...) but I liked her. Technically, no different than most of my stuff... I should maybe change the materials...?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't change the materials unless you feel like it. You're a master with watercolors and that acrylic ink that puzzles both Miki and me. You must have tried putting a gloss on your watercolors. How did that come out?
100swallows

Miki said...

A good portrait, but not typically danuesque I would say... somehow I have the feeling that you like that "model" more than the other ones... it comes through the way you paint her. I´m´not speaking about ugliness or beauty, just about a kind of tenderness which I feel here, and never felt somewhere else (not even in the portrait of your mother you present in our Coffee Cup Club).
Concerning the change of materials... I think in the moment where it begins to bore you, or if you have the feeling to repat yourself somehow, then it is time to change. But really: only YOU know the answer to your question.

Ion Vincent Danu said...

I suppose I'd liked her... but you, know, my "style" it's only myself... I do not consciently aim at a style... I simply do it, I paint and sometimes the result is a bit different... and, of course, the change of material question was rethorical...

Ion Vincent Danu said...

G, I already wrote an answer to your comment... somehow it did't show... so, the acrylic ink is just a variant of acrylic color, a few big firm produce: I use Daler-Rowney (a British firm) and I think these inks keep some gloss... watercolor usually dries in a mate surface...