Character Series

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The non-digital, but nevertheless "interactive process" of creating the character paintings starts with a collaboration with the model selecting a subject from, history, literature, or mythology. Using loosely interpreted & improvised costuming, the paintings are double portraits.  Capturing the live actor/individual is parallel in importance to revealing the subject of the enactment.

This series is usually painted in acrylic on 42” x 30” mylar, a synthetic, slightly transparent graphic arts medium.

 

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ES-as-st-joan-42-x-30

char-clepoatra-42x30

char-cassiopeia-42x3002

char-M-as-Gaia-42-x-30

HD-as-Pandora-42-x-30

char-M-as-Frida-Kahlo-42-x-

char-janeavril-42x30

EL-as-DorothyParker-40x30

char-S-as-Bettie-Page-42-x-