The Picker-Banjo-Figurative

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 Notan

Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Ros did the honor of hosting this week and provided a bunch of great photos!

 Musicians seem to be good subjects. Studious, concentrating, the goal of producing audio art! That's the attitude I usually look for.


The challenge was to do a value sketch (notan)in three tones – black, grey and white.
Simplify - do a very simple line shape sketch.
Squint - Reduce the shapes to as few as possible.
Small - Work small and fast – if your sketch is too complex do another more simplified.

I tried the notan approach and I can see how it would be very beneficial. Like many others I've always been in a hurry to start slappin' paint on. This forces you to slow down and plan. I didn't follow my notan very closely, but, hey...I'm new to it!

I did the sketch on the panel with a Tombow Pen. It did some nice blurring and backwashing when I applied thin acrylics to tone the support ( it's not waterproof like I thought it was). So I left some of it visible in the finished work.
This is about 90% painting knife.

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting!

Sing Me A Memory-Musician Portrait

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.
This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Grace was the provided a bunch of great photos!

The old musician struck a chord with me. Here he is still entertaining after all these years. He has seen music evolve in person. I too played music for years until old Father Time caught up with me and said, "Whoa"! I have an older brother who's still playing shows!

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting.

Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

1 timothy2:5       For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

Heartfelt-Figurative

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to The Seated Figure Challenge at DPW posted by Dana Cooper .
She said, among other things, "Find the simple, large shapes first."

He may have played gigs on stage for big bucks. Now he sings on a corner with a tip box at his feet.
But, you can be sure, each song still comes straight from the heart.

Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

Matthew 5^:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.