Unruly

Kimberly Dow · 06-19-2006, 07:57 PM

30x20"
oil on ABS

Linda Brandon · 06-19-2006, 11:01 PM

Very nice, Kim! I like your edge control here, and the pose has a wonderful drama.

This is inspiring a dimly recalled teenaged memory of sitting on a beach blanket looking up at a lifeguard. Unfortunately, he was asking me when my friend Lisa was supposed to show up, so that is the end of the memory.

What color blue did you use in the sky, by the way?

Mike McCarty · 06-19-2006, 11:20 PM

Why it's Nicolas Cage ...

I had a patch of hair like that on my head once.

Nice job on this one Kim. You are a painting machine!

Terri Ficenec · 06-19-2006, 11:22 PM

Oh well done, Kim! and so nice to see a figurative of a guy! I agree with Linda. . . something about, this pose, this lighting. . . even the cigarette in his mouth brings a sense of being at the beach. Very evocative.

Kimberly Dow · 06-20-2006, 01:40 AM

Thanks Linda, MIke & Terri -

that is cerulean blue and titanuim white for the sky.

It was great fun painting a male figurative for a change. I have more in the works.

Hey, he does look a bit like Cage now that you mention it!

Garth Herrick · 06-20-2006, 10:36 AM

Hey Kim,

This is indeed very nice! It's not your standard portrait, but that is what makes you and your original portrayals so refreshing. You have quite a knack for color development, and the cropping and composition do exude a real sense of unruliness being thinly contained, or a pent-up energy. When is your next workshop?

Garth

Marina Dieul · 06-20-2006, 11:49 AM

Kim,
I can smell the sun lotion from here!
You did a wonderful job with the values, very nice!

Carlos Ygoa · 06-20-2006, 12:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terri Ficenec

even the cigarette in his mouth brings a sense of being at the beach. Very evocative.

(Looks a bit more "illegal" than a cigarette)
Very candid, very original in the pose as well as the composition. And the colour handling is very successful. Congratulations!

Carlos

Carol Norton · 06-20-2006, 12:39 PM

Kim, I have yet to formally meet you, (I think Linda Brandon and Chris Saper have.) Anyway, I KNOW I'd like you. This is just wonderful and AND it gives me 1000 ideas for my trip to California and San Diego, camera clicking away! You are a real inspiration. Thank you for posting this! It's wonderful.

Kimberly Dow · 06-20-2006, 05:02 PM

Thank you for such kind words Garth. I dont have another workshop planned, but I loved teaching the one I did. Tell you what, you come on down and I will get some students rounded up and I can pretend to teach while we really watch you paint.

Carlos & Marina, thank you so much! Carlos, I honestly dont know what kind of tobacco was in that cigarette...I wont speculate. That can be a mystery for the viewer.

Carol - we definitly have to meet someday! I know I would like you as well and I always love it when you comment on my pieces - thank you!