Girl In a Room
Etching
12x16
Spring 2013
Etching with Spit Bite background, wiped to leave slight plate tone.
Retort
18x22
Oil on Canvas
Dec. 2013-Jan. 2014
Oil painting using impasto and glazes.
The Icon
22x30
Etching
Spring 2014
Etching with aquatint, employing many different stop-out points for more tonal variety
I love the overall grittiness of your images. The expressive posture of "Girl in a Room" is very inviting into this person's environment, and the line quality is greatly varied making it an interesting piece to look at. I also like the execution of the skin textures in "Retort" and "The Icon" it appeals to me to see reality in these portraits opposed to idealism. The values from light to dark is also very successful in "The Icon" it helps to draw your eye through the piece, from the light foreground up to the faces, then finally resting in the dark spot at the crucifixion, because of this "The Icon" tells a great story.
ReplyDeleteHI Billy, I am particularly drawn to the etching you call The Icon. Without the use of color you have given the piece immense depth and variety of value. I like your characters, with their strong features--and the rooster with the halo. Jaime
ReplyDeleteI hope you enter The Icon in the student show, it has a great illustrative quality that pulls me in.
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