Immanence WIP

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female, figure, figures, painting, Paintings, theology, watercolour

I am trying a different approach with this painting.  A bit daunting and not sure what it’s going to look like, but here goes!  I got a wonderful book by Jean Pederson called “Expressive Portraits: Creative Methods for Painting People”.  It has loads of  great information and demonstrations of her techniques.  Except that they are for painting wet on wet, on cold press paper, and I paint in a dry-brush technique on hot press paper! Talk about out of my comfort zone. So I am trying to adapt the principles to my style of working first,….then comes the real challenge of trying the techniques the way they are described in the book.

Stay tuned………..

 

Reading together WIP 2

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boy, child, children, figure, figures, girl, girls, painting, Paintings, portrait, portraits, watercolor, watercolour

Slow going on this piece.  I am thinking of starting over, as a matter of fact.  There are places that I feel are overworked. Maybe. I’m not sure.  But am I sure that I have to walk away from it for a bit.

New Sketches

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female, figure, figures, sketches, theology

“Searching”

This concept is of an individual’s search for the Divine, or Deity. They are reaching for the light, straining  but can’t quite reach it.

“Immanence”

This idea is to show the theological concept of Immanence of Deity. In many spiritual traditions the belief is that deity or the divine can be found within the individual.  I want to try to show that the light is coming from within, and is the only light source.