Introducing Interlocking Portraits

I am thrilled to present the first of my Interlocking Portraits™, a unique approach to portraiture I created for a client who wanted a family portrait that could ultimately be gifted to each of her four children. Designed to hang together, this modular oil portrait can be enjoyed by the entire household, but can be divided and given to family members as they move away from home, go off to college, or start their own families, allowing each of them to keep part of the cherished portrait.

This portrait was created with the Renaissance technique of grisaille (griz-eye) painting. The initial painting was executed in gray tones ranging in values from dark to light and sometimes warm to cool. Transparent oil color glazes are then applied over the finished grisaille painting to complete the piece. Click here to see the tonal underpainting painting.

The four oil paintings featured here are of a Lincoln Park family on their roof deck and are each 4-5 feet tall.

I'm back with a huge oil painting project

Where have I been since my last post? Working on several oil paintings including these four. (I'll post the other two paintings I've been working on later this this week.) These four oil paintings are each 4-5 feet tall. Click on the photo above to see them better. The paintings are designed to hang together or apart. The subjects are a sweet Lincoln Park family on their roof deck. My studio assistant Tracee Badway and I have been working on capturing the values in gray scale before we add color. I'm very excited and pleased with how this is turning out. Watch this studio news blog for the final color version in a few weeks. My artwork photographer is Scott Keely who does great work.