LINDA H. POST FINE ART

So this is where I am at the end of today. This painting is just starting to gain presence and solidity. It's important to work back and forth, playing flesh tones against fabric, bodies against stone, a glimpse of sky through draperies. Getting it right, so that the painting seems so real - yet is not - hangs on how convincing the reality is. These girls have never met each other, the setting is completely imaginary, the seagull seems so important but was almost the last com

Long ago and far away... I traveled to France. I took many photographs, of course, but this carousel in a village carnival caught my imagination. I saved the snapshot for - literally - decades until I found the perfect use for it. This painting called out for a more whimsical tent, so voila! #France #carousel #painting

Three versions. Even if a painting changes radically once I put brush to canvas, I do attempt to get the photo sketch as close as possible to what's in my mind's eye. I played around with the girl on the left, and added a seagull. I really preferred the talking seagull. Then I changed the girl on the right, thinking I wanted more interaction. I liked this composition MUCH better. But something was still bothering me about the composition. It took a while to figure it out. See

But this painting actually had its genesis last year, when all of the images I wanted to use started to fall into place in my mind. I looked through a stockpile of photographs I've taken over the years and began to put the pieces together in my computer. I had two models in mind for this painting. Working in Photoshop, I selected the particular images I wanted to use and after creating the setting, I moved them around the picture. This was my first attempt. The girl on the le

Writing a blog is a bit like posting on Facebook. Since this is my first blog entry on this new website, I'll share where my painting is today, but I'll also go back to the beginning. Who isn't interested in how a painting comes about? This is where I began today. #painting #sea #seagull #carousel #girls #stonewall