Contemplation. Giclee fine art print.
There’s a reason that there's such a strong tradition of life drawing and painting in Western art - the human body is both complex and subtle, and to render it as a form is challenging. This subject provided simple areas that required complex layering and glazing, and other complex areas that needed little more than a few deft brushstrokes - the contrasts in approach make this piece a real delight to contemplate.
July 2024.
Original oil on canvas 21"x14.5" (36.5cm x 53cm)
There’s a reason that there's such a strong tradition of life drawing and painting in Western art - the human body is both complex and subtle, and to render it as a form is challenging. This subject provided simple areas that required complex layering and glazing, and other complex areas that needed little more than a few deft brushstrokes - the contrasts in approach make this piece a real delight to contemplate.
July 2024.
Original oil on canvas 21"x14.5" (36.5cm x 53cm)
There’s a reason that there's such a strong tradition of life drawing and painting in Western art - the human body is both complex and subtle, and to render it as a form is challenging. This subject provided simple areas that required complex layering and glazing, and other complex areas that needed little more than a few deft brushstrokes - the contrasts in approach make this piece a real delight to contemplate.
July 2024.
Original oil on canvas 21"x14.5" (36.5cm x 53cm)
Prints are scaled to various standard US frame sizes, e.g. 10x8, 14x11, 20x16, 28x20, and 36x24 (all inches). Square print sizes are 12x12, 16x16, 20x20, 24x24, 28x28, 32x32, and 36x36 (all inches). The print itself is smaller than this to include a border of 1 to 2 inches depending on the print size. When the original is an odd proportion, we fill the frame with the image until the first border is touched. In other words, you might have wider vertical or horizontal borders. When the horizontal borders are wider, we might move the image up a little so that the lower one is wider than the upper, this is a popular setting.
All of my prints are professionally rendered to archival standards on 310gm, 100% cotton paper from Germany, with a gently textured surface. This paper is free of optical brightening agents (OBAs). They are printed in the latest generation Epson Ultrachrome archival pigment inks. This is the ink-set that started the pigment print revolution and twenty years on continues to be the leader in terms of lightfastness, colour gamut and D-max. I inspect each print personally to ensure print quality. Each print is titled, signed and dated by me, and will be packed in glassine paper and cardboard tubing for sizes 36x24 to 20x16, or glassine with cardboard protection for the smaller sizes 14x11 and 10x8.