Friday, February 22, 2013

African Faces


These are large, at least for me, 60 x 80 cm canvases that were painted in 1912.. my first beginnings using the palette knife... to loosen up and get out the graphic mode...

The inspiration came from the book,Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa by  Hans Silvester, that my artist friend Lillie brought to class.

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There are lots of photography bloggers that have posted about Silvester's work and I even found another artist that did paintings using his book.  Here is one blog North Goes South  that I particularly liked.

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