Jessica
I’m afraid I don’t have a good scan of this. It was painted back in the day before I had computer fu.
This is a small painting done with Genesis oils, a type of paint that handles a lot like traditional oil, but dries at 250 degrees in about 15 minutes. You can put your paintings in the oven and work them soon after they dry and cool. Traditional oil paints can take quite a long time to dry and if you don’t wait the proper intervals, your paintings will crackle and may be completely destroyed over time. Many Maxfield Parrish originals suffered this fate.
10 Comments
D Parker
That’s lovely. Your versatility in various media is so impressive.
Colleen
Thank you. I don’t get to paint very often, I’m itching to get back to it.
Stewart Vernon
This is great! Maybe it’s also because I like red… being a red-head myself, or at least I used to have red hair until I got older and it became the brown/grey mix it is now… Too bad we can’t fix ourselves like you can fix a painting so we don’t start to crackle and lose our color! 🙂
questionwriter
VaVOOM gorgeous! Did you use a model? Just curious because a zillion years ago (when I had a body) I used to do art modeling. Could never sit well for portraiture, though – could never hold my face that still.
Stampers Saverem
I want red hair like that!
Colleen
I really don’t remember much about the circumstances of painting this piece, but I remember being frustrated with the hair.
Stampers Saverem
Works for me, whatever it was that frustrated you so…
Colleen
I recall I hadn’t worked in oils much and really wasn’t sure how to handle it.
Stampers Saverem
Yeah–
Oil paint can be really frustrating until one gets the hang of it.
(I prefer acrylics, myself)
Stewart Vernon
This one is also a little eerie for me… Somewhere, and I don’t know where because of a recent move… somewhere I have an old drawing made by my father, of my mother… and this reminds me of that drawing. I know it’s here somewhere. My mother, myself, and my sister all had the bright orange red hair… mine has turned brown much in the way our mother’s did… my sister still has more of the orangey look to hers for the moment.