Hannah and Her Sisters

Scott Bartner · 10-13-2003, 11:11 AM

It seems my commissions come in 3

Scott Bartner · 10-13-2003, 11:13 AM

Detail of Hannah
Oil on panel, 38 x 27 cm.

Peter Jochems · 10-13-2003, 03:21 PM

My compliments, Scott!

They are wonderful, especially when one looks a little longer. Wonderful atmosphere and colouring. Very subtle.

Mike McCarty · 10-13-2003, 05:17 PM

Scott,

Very nice. I too have painted a Hannah and her sister (2) this year. Did you mention the size?

Linda Brandon · 10-15-2003, 10:00 AM

Hi Scott,

I just spotted this on the Forum. I love these faces; you seem to get a serenity and peace into your paintings which I find haunting (this is a good thing). And I love the idea of a triptych, the perfect solution to the three child question.

This purplish background color shows up a lot in your work, by the way, how do you mix this?

Congratulations on a beautiful painting.

Scott Bartner · 10-15-2003, 11:26 AM

Thank you Peter, Mike and Linda for your kind remarks. Linda, in the Works in Progress sections, Marvin Mattelson just wrote about the importance of establishing early on a background idea, as opposed to starting the portraits and painting in a background later. I

Marvin Mattelson · 10-15-2003, 12:06 PM

Mike is my evil twin brother currently imprisoned on prison spaceship circulating around the earth. He doesn't know how to paint portraits, yet he continues to maintain that I am the evil twin. Go figure?

Scott Bartner · 10-15-2003, 02:09 PM

Marvin, my excuses for the error. I must be suffering from some form of Liquin induced dyslexia. By the way, I never tell even my closest friends what the E. stands for in my middle name having been thoroughly tormented for it as a child. I wonder if that Untouchable fellow got the same treatment.

Speaking of which, I think I met your brother in the joint. I was doing time for practicing dilettantism without a license. God I hope Cynthia never finds out.

Cynthia Daniel · 10-18-2003, 12:06 AM

Linda Ciallelo · 11-25-2003, 02:17 PM

These are very beautiful. You mentioned that you used a greenish underpainting. Could you share with us the actual color(s) that you used for your underpainting? Did you do the underpainting using "only" those three colors also? And am I correct in assuming that you use Liquin as your medium? Thanks for posting these.