12.17.06
‘”The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.” ‘
Courtesy of Tennessee Williams…
So, I’m back in the painting business, and damn it feels good…
After much email and phone tag, Lexi stopped by the studio and we did the long awaited posing session. Its always good to relax with the subject first, usually over a few ales and discuss the project. I had hung some of the previous paintings and told her the story of how they came to be, she scored big points by having patronized the Volcano, which is where this series was born.
Its always a profound pleasure in having someone instantly grasp what I’m trying to achieve, what look I’m after, namely that sense of despondency, after a long night out, the emptiness… Of course, its not the easiest thing to capture when both the artist and the model are swapping jokes and witticisms back and forth at lighting speed, and I ended up with a few dozen shots of her laughing - not quite the mood I’m trying to capture.
After a good half hour of shooting, we decided to review what we had, plugged in the ol’ camera and started doing the photoshop magic, removing red-eye, using a couple of ‘artistic’ filters to simulate what the final painting might look like. I was amazed at how many were exactly what I was looking for, normally I get one shot that will end up being a painting, this time I got two definite and about half a dozen others that were good enough to consider doing a whole series of just her…
They were so good we just had to run down to The Pub for celebratory ales and fondue…
