This is the work currently stationed on my easel - three quarters finished. Thank goodness it snowed heavily last night: I'm supposed to be hanging this and the other works in the series today, but I have a few days reprieve thanks to the downy layer sent from heaven. I'm thoroughly enjoying working on this Picasso influenced series, reinterpreting the great man's works in my own style ... well, actually, in this particular work my style is greatly overshadowed by the overwhelming power of his style, making my painting more of a pastiche than a reinterpretation. This is a 30"x 24" acrylic on canvas, echoing Picasso's 6'8"x 68 1/2" oil on canvas monumental work entitled Three Women at the Fountain (Spring). The original is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is from Picasso's neo classical period during which he painted large, heavy-looking figures in timeless, classical poses. These three women are gathered at the spring to collect water and to COMMUNICATE with one another, and as COMMUNICATE is Illustration Friday's current theme, this my submission.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Communicating with Picasso
This is the work currently stationed on my easel - three quarters finished. Thank goodness it snowed heavily last night: I'm supposed to be hanging this and the other works in the series today, but I have a few days reprieve thanks to the downy layer sent from heaven. I'm thoroughly enjoying working on this Picasso influenced series, reinterpreting the great man's works in my own style ... well, actually, in this particular work my style is greatly overshadowed by the overwhelming power of his style, making my painting more of a pastiche than a reinterpretation. This is a 30"x 24" acrylic on canvas, echoing Picasso's 6'8"x 68 1/2" oil on canvas monumental work entitled Three Women at the Fountain (Spring). The original is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is from Picasso's neo classical period during which he painted large, heavy-looking figures in timeless, classical poses. These three women are gathered at the spring to collect water and to COMMUNICATE with one another, and as COMMUNICATE is Illustration Friday's current theme, this my submission.
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aaaaaarrrrrggggg!!! this is the second time my link from Illustration Friday showed up with "no image" - can any IF contributors tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Barbara, I don't know if you've gotton an answer to your question about the image yet, but I can tell you what I do. . . open your image in Photoshop, crop an area you like holding the shift key, then in the top menue under image got to image size first make it 72dpi then 50 by 50 pixels, hit OK. Then under file hit save for web, save as jpeg, select mediium quality, that should be good enough. Save to your desktop in a new folder so you find it easy. then when you selct an image to upload go into the image folder and select the jpeg file.If you're alredy doing that then hell if I know. By the way I love your sense of humor, and your paintings as well.
Great! good luck -B
I am really enjoying this series and I look forward to each painting that you create. I google the originals and look at them. I find it very interesting to compare and contrast Picasso's work and your interpretation. You must have fun choosing what aspects you are going to keep and what you are going to change. Thank you for this series. It is enlightening.
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