Sunday, August 1, 2010

Don't cry over spilt wine

Don’t Cry Over Spilt Wine / 20” x 20” / Acrylic on paper, coated with gesso / 2006

Comic relief - with this painting, I wanted to use pointillism to add a sultry playfulness to my subject. When pointillism was first introduced as an art form in was ridiculed. It took years to be recognized as a truly unique and noteworthy technique, for aesthetic purposes and in contributing to the scientific and analytical aspect of art.

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