"B's Yellow Sweater"
48" X 60" Oil on canvas, 2015
PORTRAITS
2015 - 2016
I am a huge admirer of a well-rendered portrait and in 2015 I began a side project that I thought about doing for a number of years and finally worked up the wherewithal to undertake.
TASK
Approach and then persuade people (stranger or no) who I find visually compelling to pose for a portrait in oils. As something of an introvert I find this undertaking especially daunting. Much more so than the act of painting itself. I shall contrive to have a half dozen or so of these portraits done before the end of 2016.
FORMAT
Scale - Life Size and Larger
HOPE
To reproduce a glimpse of what engaged me about the subject in the first place, transcend the purely representational and perhaps capture something of their nature.
jhn65art@gmail.com
(615) 473-3992
''Johnny with Do Rag"
48" X 40" Oil on Canvas, 2015
"The Brothers Doyle"
46" X 40" Oil on Canvas, 2015
"Entwhistle and McDaniel"
48" X 48" Oil on Canvas, 2015
"Brother and Sister"
36" X 60" Oil on linen, 2015
"Chris and Katie"
54" X 38" Oil on Linen, 2016
"Back Porch, Sudley Place"
54" X 38" Oil on Linen, 2016