Last night I received the confirmation that my 3 entries are juried into the group show "Darkness" at the Rossetti Fine Art Gallery in Pompano Beach.
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Artists were encouraged to enter works with dark themes and imagery. In other words for the artists to tap into their darker side. I chose to stay with one of my favorite subjects - children - and painted 3 fictional portraits (12" x 12"), using ink, charcoal and 4 colours of Acrylics (White, Red, Grey and Payne's Grey). I did not feel that full colour would do justice to the subjects and chose to stick with a limited palette.
I was aiming for a slightly subtle level of darkness and I was surprised that it was actually hard to restrain myself from going into a"SAW" kind of blood filled darkness, while setting up the portraits.
Congratulations, Holland!! I agree with your decision to stick to a limited color palette and I think your choices for this one are perfect. The lively, happy red, and sweet little child, draw me in. But then I see the look in her eyes, a look no child should have in her eyes, and now the red brings to mind blood, and the grey all the things I don't know about that are behind that look in her eyes. Very disturbing indeed!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! I am happy that it draws you in and is disturbing at the same time. That is exactly what I was aiming for.
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