Looking at Freud regularly these days. It sort of puts you in a gray frame of mind. This one was more difficult than I expected, that cow mask required some real investigation. I painted it first and as I adjusted it to the nose mouth ratio (correct relationship of nose to mouth) the horns went off the top and Elmo went off the bottom. So back to drawing on paper to get the image accurate, kind of. Second try, this one, I managed to get some of everything on there. A subconscious part of my interior engine wants to make everything, everything life size. Sometimes I see painters who use calipers to measure the head, and I want to run screaming into the street.
This mask also moos.
I had two lovely and helpful comments here, but blogger.com has gone berserk and wiped out some paintings and comments, so they are gone but not forgotten....
ReplyDeleteYou know I love this!
ReplyDeleteSorry about the blogger problem.