Title: "Alone 1"
Artist: (me)
Media: Oil on Canvas
Size: 26 x 20 inches
Date: 2000
Not For Sale
Description:
Alone 1 is the first and most vivid in a series of three figure paintings titled "alone". In the alone series, I tried to imbue the figures with the mood or sensation of solitude. Alone 1 is painted from a live model, and took about 2.5 hours. Again, I find that my best works of art occur in surprisingly short periods of time, in gushes of focused empassioned creativity.
The alone series is inspired by the loss of my fiance in early 2000. Alone 1 was painted nearest these events, and is the best of the alone series. In the live pose, the lighting was actually quite different than in the painting. Alone 1 was also serving as an experiment in embellished lighting. The original pose was fairly striking, but really fairly neutral in terms of emotional content. I feel that the colors, space, lighting, etc. which I employed in the painting make it into something a great deal more than a snapshot of the pose I was painting from.
I do wish I could give the first name of the model, but I do not recall his name. I was unfortunately pretty brooding and introverted at the time. I try to give credit where credit is due, its a lot easier to make figure art with a good model. But whoever you are, thanks for the superb sitting.
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