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With permission this is reblogged from Leslie White’s blog. I love the way she has pulled together painting technique with our other arts and ideals. Think you will enjoy too. Happy Weekend to all of you from all of us at Into the Bardo … and thanks, Leslie! 🙂 J.D.
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UNDERPAINTING
by
Leslie White
I could not believe my good fortune when I found a photo of Grandpa Elliot posted to the wet canvas photo reference library for artists. It was a must-do for me.
Several bloggers have made mention of underpaintings; the most recent being Amy from Souldipper found here. She asked me about an artist’s use of an underpainting. I responded something like it is the foundation that we build our final work on. That made me think more on the subject as we were also talking about underpainting our lives with love and kindness. Then I came across the photo of Grandpa Elliot who has actually underpainted his life with sharing music to millions in New Orleans and becoming part of the project, “Playing for Change”, a CD whose proceeds go to helping others.
The other connection I can make about an underpainting is that it always, for me, sets the tone for where the light will fall in it. BINGO! I see the same in life with passing on kindness. Light is passed on through our kindness to others. The above stage of my painting illustrates how I carved out areas where I wanted the light to fall.
The above image is the finished result.
I can not think of a better way to start the weekend than this:
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… and to have such a fine message included makes it all even more pleasurable. Leslie is a fine artist and an even finer person. I enjoy her work very much.
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Thank you, Jamie!
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Thank you! So proud and pleased to have you hear, Leslie.
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art is an amazing field. i love to see the paintings, sculptures a lot and read what experts have to say about them.
thanks a lot jamie.
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… and to have such a fine message included makes it all even more pleasurable. Leslie is a fine artist and an even finer person. I enjoy her work very much.
Jamie
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