Sculpture Drawing

Portrait of Mrs. Vitali

statue by Manzu

Among the blogs I follow is the Daily Paint Works.... this week their challenge is to Paint a statue... Last year I did two paintings of statues by Marini Marino  but they are not kosher to post because of the rules that state only work after the challenge is posted.  Just a plain graphite sketch in my brown paper sketch book...23 x 30 .. which may develop into a painting This statue from a photo in book on the Italian sculptor Manzu. .

Nudes from Marini Sculptures

These painting were done from some photos of sculptures by the Italian artist Marino Marini.  Actually I majored sculpture about a million years ago.... but now I am doing more sketching and painting. His sculptures are inspirational. as I was working on the painting with the palette knife it almost felt as if I was back modeling clay.

 Oils on 40 x 60 cm stretched canvas using the palette knife. Limited palette.

 Dancer  done in 1949

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Nude  done in 1935 (detail)

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African Faces

These are large, at least for me, 60 x 80 cm canvases that were painted in 1912.. my first beginnings using the palette knife... to loosen up and get out the graphic mode...

The inspiration came from the book,Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa by  Hans Silvester, that my artist friend Lillie brought to class.

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There are lots of photography bloggers that have posted about Silvester's work and I even found another artist that did paintings using his book.  Here is one blog North Goes South  that I particularly liked.