100 Hundred Faces

This is the 4th year Trudy McLauchlan has had One Hundred Faces exhibition in her shop, Playing in the Attic, in the Victorian regional town of Talbot. There are 100 canvases of the size 10.2 x 10.2 cm, the actual size of my painting in this post. As the pics explain, the exhibition is displayed in the shop window so it can be viewed 24 hours a day!

My image is of course based on a film still of Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief. It was meant to be a trompe l'oeil painting as an etching or a drypoint but it's more like my biro drawings in a previous post of mine.

I've always loved the idea of the kiss, especially in the paintings of Gustave Klimt and Edvard Munch. This was an opportunity to try it out in a small scale and now I've started another larger painting of the kiss which will be posted soon.

Kiss, 2023, oil on canvas, 10.2 x 10.2 cm

The 100 Faces display in the window of Trudy's shop called Playing in the Attic.

 

Street view of the exhibition.

Sunsets on Lake Wendouree

These two paintings were done in about 8-10 sittings at Lake Wendouree with minimum touches in the studio. As I've pointed out before, when you visit a site on numerous occasions, it is never the same, so these 2 painted sunsets never actually existed. Being on sight helps to feel the image, which is mainly how an image forms itself. 

Sunset, Pink and Blue, 2023, oil on canvas, 50.75 x 50.5 cm

Sunset, Blue and Gold, 2023, oil on linen, 60 x 40 cm

More Surrealsim

I thought I would continue on from the last post and have a few more surrealist paintings.  

Surrealism can be about dreams or something from the unconscious mind, well, this is the theory anyway! These paintings are not about dreams but they do come from an inner suggestion or impulse, so surreal is probably an appropriate terminology to use here.

The top one is a small sketch painting and in due course I did a much larger version, but I have always preferred the sketch. Sometimes a small scale can feel more intimate as if you are holding an idea in your hand.

Shadow, 1999, oil on MDF, 16.75 x 12 cm

Untitled #95, 2002, oil on canvas, 152 x 83.5 cm

Untitled #22, 1998, oil on canvas, 183 x 91.5 cm

Untitled #6, oil on canvas, 1997, 183.25 x 25.5 cm

Untitled #109, 2003, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 35.5 cm

Untitled #102, 2002, oil on canvas, 110 x 91.5 cm

Untitled #105, 2003, oil on linen, 35.5 x 30 cm