English Girl
English Girl
Painted by artist in 1972, Oxford, England
I remember that tube of cobalt violet in my paint box, one of the most expensive tubes of paint I had. I never used it until here in this painting and that's the cobalt violet on the left of the chair. To the right is cadmium red, another of the most expensive pigments in my paint box. The painting is done on artist's cardboard, which others insisted was all right for oil painting. It survives to this day as do some other oil paintings I actually did on paper.
One of the bits of paper I did a small oil sketch got put in a frame by my mother and was later stolen from the New London Inn in New London, New Hampshire. That's one of the problems with trying to exhibit your work outside of a reputable gallery that has decent security. If you're a good artist but unknown, people won't want to buy from you often, but there are sure lots of them who wouldn't think twice about stealing from you.
One unfortunate thing though, about the English Girl painting is that the forest mould in mid-state New Hampshire got it and covered the entire painting so that the colors are not nearly so vibrant as they were when this picture was taken about five years ago. This photo was taken before the mould set in. Maybe there's a way to treat it without damaging the work.
Recently I did a few studies of the original painting as digital art on the computer, such as this one taken from an oval section immediately to the left of the chair you see in the painting above. I wanted to get some more mileage out of that cobalt violet I used. The result is something like a piece of jewelry rather than the original composition.
"Enggl17f1b"
Digital art based on a section of the "English Girl" painting,
The Carlsbad Period, December 2003.
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digital art based on the English Girl oil painting.
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