Etude #6
Objective:
Goal: Focus is on color and mark making.
Result: WIP
Goal: Have a woman with a soul represented.
Result: WIP
John Koch 'Portrait of the Artist's Father', 1951
John Koch had such a fine touch. I admire the color, composition, mark making.
The overall syrupy sentiment reminds me of a flat Saturday Evening Post cover. Which I find to be unfortunate.
End of Session 11
I hope this is good. It’s always hard to tell before putting more detail in how the composition is going to hold up.
I’m sad about not having enough space for his boots. Bad planning on my part.
Note: Information regarding the paintings metadata text can be found here: ‘Objets Et Etranges #1’.
Man Sitting
Good pose I think
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