Einstein Series

"Albert Einstein 1", oil on panel, 11x14

(Van Gogh-Ivory Black)

"Albert Einstein 2", oil on panel, 11x14

(Van Gogh - Ivory Black)

"Albert Einstein 3", oil on panel

(Gamblin - Chromatic Black)

"Albert Einstein 4", oil on panel, 11x14

(Rembrandt - Ivory Black)

"Albert Einstein 5", oil on panel, 11x14

(M. Graham - Ivory Black)

The Einstein series is an on going project, I love working on this. So far I only have 5; I'm sure as I find more intriguing photos of him in public domain (and find time to do it!) I will work on it some more.

This project started after I finished reading Walter Isaacson's book about Einstein. I thought he was such a unique & wonderful human being, he certainly had interesting point of views about things. I started to google him to find more information that the book didn't have (or had too little of it) and I was so happy to find so many black & white photos of him in the net. He had interesting facial expressions, too (or lack of it). I just loved it. I wanted to paint him in black and white. So I used different black from different manufacturers on linen panel from RayMar (the name of the manufacturer & color are between brackets). Now I have proved it that even though the name is the same (Ivory Black) they're not the same when different people make it. I kind of knew this before I started this project but had no idea how different they really were. I love all of them, I like black passionately.

I highly recommend Isaacson's book although for some parts of it it was so hard to understand, I guess physics and Roselly don't go together that well (now you know why I went to design school and become an artist).

I hope you enjoy my Einstein painting project. Thank you for visiting my blog & have a wonderful weekend!

"Susie"

"Susie", oil on canvas, 9x12.

Susie was painted from life at Mainstreet Art Center yesterday, she posed for about 3 hours and I was trying to put down as much information as I could in that time frame. I wished I could have more time, but maybe not, sitting on the wooden bench for 3 hours were not that exciting - in fact it was borderline painful even though I thought I had enough natural padding there (the reason I chose that place was I wanted to paint her face slightly below her chin so I could paint her nostrils and the shadows of her eyes' pockets). But, in the end I was quite happy with it.

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