“Threelandia” was painted immediately after “Land of the Three,” another submission here, and is part of my Bodyscapes series where a person sleeps beneath a striped blanket underneath a sky. My intention is to create a landscape while simultaneously using cloth as the primary element. In this painting, one lower raised leg beneath the blanket is almost vertical and most foregrounded at the left side of the painting. The other leg is spread apart but is further back in the picture plane. The cloth sags between. The torso, at the upper left and left of center, is barely visible to the viewer beneath the blue sky adorned to the right with one cloud. I was challenged in this painting by the light that fell against the cloth in comparison to the shaded areas and to make all the shades of color relate into a harmonious whole. This approach to color created an atmospheric quality. The three in the title “Threelandia” refers to the many triangles created by the draped cloth over the figure.
Threelandia
Medium: Oil
$1,900.00
24 x 28 in. oil on fine portrait linen painted with thin, built-up layers of color
