I worked on this image in asphaltum, which is a dark transparent paint that I often use for underpaintings. It is larger than I have been working recently: 20x30 in. I was planning to keep working on it but now think I will start a new one. I deliberately set up the composition of three people but like how the main person (the mother of sorrow) is the only one clearly rendered. She is, in fact, very alone at this point in her life.
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Monday, October 4, 2010
People With No Names - The Undocumented #22
I worked on this image in asphaltum, which is a dark transparent paint that I often use for underpaintings. It is larger than I have been working recently: 20x30 in. I was planning to keep working on it but now think I will start a new one. I deliberately set up the composition of three people but like how the main person (the mother of sorrow) is the only one clearly rendered. She is, in fact, very alone at this point in her life.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
People With No Names - The Undocumented #13
This is just a quick brushy underpainting/first pass I made at an image of Caesar on the big ladder. As I looked at it, I realized that this image is a true picture of an undocumented immigrant's life here. Nothing is clearly delineated, articulated or certain. A person on a ladder is potentially in a precarious position; a person on the margins of society is always in a precarious position.
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