Friday, January 22, 2010

Think Small


The new year started with the arrival of five big canvases from Utretch. This was following the arrival of my very large easel, a present from Jan. That spurred a resolution to go big this year and try to complete about twenty more large portraits. Like all resolutions, this one hit a road bump when I found some small 8 x 10 canvases in the closet which I promptly gessoed and painted over. Here's one to the left. Now I am envisioning about twenty of these as a series. (Hey, they take less time to paint.) So I guess the bottom line is that I am not quite sure the new year will bring. Maybe a little bit of both.

1 comment:

Willie Baronet said...

Hey Neil, great work! Love your portraits, and congrats on the showing in Frisco. Great to see you again after all this time and know you are still stretching yourself. Blessings to you.