Produced in cooperation with Dan Fisico and Caitlin Lockwood (Thanks Dan and Caitlin)
Elegant dancer Caitlin is a Heaven's Angel indeed, exhibiting her own expressive beauty of form and movement in the cloisters at the San Lorenzo Monastry in Escorial, Spain... As Caitlin herself in a recent interview said, she loves to feel and breathe the dance itself...
Original oil painting produced on stretched 120cm x 60cm canvas using a knife, mixing only on the canvas using a limited colour palette.
There's many more figurative, dance and portrait fine art original oil paintings, pastels and gicleé prints on my website: R Young Art
Prints will be enabled as I've now uploaded the scanned image.
I used to paint with knives. Sometimes I would cut them to do special jobs. I have them still. One with the blade cut to a slant specially for doing tree bark. Worked really well. When no-one sells the tools you need you have to make them.
This painting is quite simple in design yet very beautiful in your execution. You have to be the number one painter of dancers.
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I can see it's not the best pic uploaded but still, I love her upper half. Her expression and her hands are rich with gentle emotion. I can keep looking at them.
But something about the lower half isn't sitting well with me. Honestly, there's just something off.. Like her legs are cut-and-paste. It's not blending enough with the background.. she doesn't feel grounded enough. If you wanted to show that she's lifting off, I don't know.. there's still a bit of heaviness there that makes her lower half static. I really don't know if it's the blur of the photograph that makes it a little odd. Somehow, I don't think so.
Plus, I still think you can do more with the background.
Caitlin's other two that you did were awesome. I just don't feel that completeness with this one. Sorry..
I like how, inspite of the stillness of the pose, there's so much movement in this picture. The limited colours work really well, I think and I like the contrast of her figure and left arm against the bright light behind here. I would have prefered if the right arm was in front of a bright background, too, it kinda gets lost in that pillar behind her, but overall this is really nicely done and yet another example of your exellent work!
Haha, tell me about it. I'm off to get some new brushes this weekend... I'm interested in how you work with the knife though. I've seen work done with a knife before, but nothing like this.
I used to paint with knives. Sometimes I would cut them to do special jobs. I have them still. One with the blade cut to a slant specially for doing tree bark. Worked really well. When no-one sells the tools you need you have to make them.
This painting is quite simple in design yet very beautiful in your execution. You have to be the number one painter of dancers.
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There is no need to say 'WELCOME' or thank me for 'FAVES'
I thank you all now.
It is man's privilege, only man's privilege, to be alone, to stand against the whole world if he feels that he is with truth.
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Richard - R Young Art (Original artwork and signed gicleé prints are available via my website)
But something about the lower half isn't sitting well with me. Honestly, there's just something off.. Like her legs are cut-and-paste. It's not blending enough with the background.. she doesn't feel grounded enough. If you wanted to show that she's lifting off, I don't know.. there's still a bit of heaviness there that makes her lower half static. I really don't know if it's the blur of the photograph that makes it a little odd. Somehow, I don't think so.
Plus, I still think you can do more with the background.
Caitlin's other two that you did were awesome. I just don't feel that completeness with this one.
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The limited colours work really well, I think and I like the contrast of her figure and left arm against the bright light behind here.
I would have prefered if the right arm was in front of a bright background, too, it kinda gets lost in that pillar behind her, but overall this is really nicely done and yet another example of your exellent work!
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Richard - R Young Art (Original artwork and signed gicleé prints are available via my website)
I'm interested in how you work with the knife though. I've seen work done with a knife before, but nothing like this.
Cheers