Friday, April 13, 2018

#0018 "Airomi's Leprechaun"

This was Step number 18 along the artistic journey taken a year after #0017 "Conch Shell". The Nuclear Physics program at Queens University must have been keeping me busy.
This is a portrait of one of Mario Airomi's sculptures. He especially enjoyed leprechauns. Lily, his wife knit the toque to complete the ensemble.

This is another step in learning how to paint. In fact it was step number 18 from the autumn of 1974. The sculpture may have been mainly monochromatic but with the lighting in Mario's studio the clay took on a wide range of colour variations nonetheless. The subject was still simpler than a landscape and the focus of the painting was much more on value than colour.
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