ossory
Unfinished at the Edges
The same figure drawn in cobalt outline over flat washy colour, the street reduced to a few sketchy strokes on bare canvas.
How this was made
This piece began with a photograph and a written instruction. Both are kept, so the record is complete rather than flattering.
THE PROMPT AND THE SETTINGS
PROMPT
POSITIVE: Repaint this as an Alice Neel oil painting, c. 1975. A full-length figure of a young adult woman, fully clothed in a long tan coat over dark trousers, holding a clear umbrella; non-sexual, no nudity. Fast direct linear handling: strong cobalt-blue and ultramarine contour outlines drawn around the coat, shoulders, face, hands and umbrella, with thin flat washy colour brushed loosely inside them. The coat blocked in as a few flat tan and ochre shapes with visible brushmarks; skin in pale peach, cream and lilac with green-grey shadow notes. Background reduced to largely bare white primed canvas with only a few sketchy blue and grey strokes suggesting the arcade and the wet ground, deliberately unfinished at the edges and corners. Slightly enlarged searching eyes, candid unguarded expression, awkward honest posture. Spare, psychologically exposing, wet-looking paint. NEGATIVE: (none)
SETTINGS
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NOTE
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