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I just came home from a life drawing session. I was flattered by all the comments and attention my art received. It’s encouraged me to sign up and keep posting work myself. Thanks!
So happy you've decided to show us more of your work. This one is also very beautiful. It takes incredible skill to indicate form & negative space with such economy, and especially I love how the lines have an abstract beauty in themselves.
Do you sell your pieces anywhere?
Thank you! I'm enjoying the Lemmy community so far. I appreciate that the comments here have had some thought put into them (a refreshing change from Instagram).
I sell pieces myself and through a gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. I post worldwide.
You can DM me if you want to chat more. Check me out on Instagram if you have it @dominiquemarriott. Or have a look at my gallery's website.
Ah you are so good.
Managed to find your gallery's site in the meantime, though this just means there is so much more to fall for! Gah.
Will be in touch with them or with you shortly. If directly with you then it'll be through this place as I don't have access to Instagram.
I was turning my phone to see if I could trick people by printing this and hanging it in my room at some weird angle so that they wouldn't notice what it was. Good work :)
Like I said in one of your partner's posts, they remind me of Picasso's line works but yours seem more expressive. Maybe it's partially due to how you, uh… "create shapes" with the width of the line as well?
Quite the compliment really, thank you! I have taken some inspiration from him, particularly when I watched the doco of him painting - The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
His direct approach to painting a line was something I knew I wanted for my own work (like a weird strong urge type thing). I guess that then mixed with an urge to capture the same energy in calligraphy brush work. And then mix that with my love for Egon Schiele, add 10 years of practice and wallah!
Did you, by any chance, use ink to paint this? I'm into fountain pens, and this almost looks like the iron gall blue-black that I use.
This was painted with ultramarine blue fluid acrylics, but I usually use sumi ink
How did you get the various shades? Or does that paint do that naturally? I'm not a painter, so forgivee if that's a dumb question.
Not a dumb question at all. The variation of shades comes from the amount of water mixed into it. But I can also get some variation from how much I push down on the brush.
I love the fluidity you bring to the human form. Something that appears so easy, but alludes most who try to mimic it. Wishing you continued success.