Created and Sold by Gregg Chadwick
Scarlet Shadow Painting
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Natural Materials
| Dimensions | Weight |
|---|---|
80H x 80W x 3D in 203.2H x 203.2W x 7.62D cm | 13.61 kg 30 lb |
In Bruges, on a recent journey, I found myself entranced by the skin tones in the almost 600 year old paintings of the Flemish masters. This alchemy between pigment and subject prompted the 20th century modernist Willem de Kooning to declare "flesh was the reason that oil paint was invented." The Flemish masters Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling began their paintings with a light colored underpainting upon which successive layers of glowing translucent oil paints were applied. Light reflects through these lustrous layers allowing us to peer into the surface of the painting. In this way oil paint seems to breathe.
My painting "Scarlet Shadow" adapts this Flemish technique onto a large scale portrait. "Scarlet Shadow" was exhibited at The Other Art Fair Los Angeles held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica and in a solo exhibition at Audis Husar Fine Art in Beverly Hills.
"Scarlet Shadow" is a dynamic large scale painting that fills a wall.
Notes on Technique:
Ghosts of earlier ideas appear within my artworks and combine with other transparent moments to create a semblance of movement, of time passing. I build a combination of shadow and illumination in each painting to create a sensation of light emanating from the work. I work with oil paint and usually create at least one color in each painting from ground pigments mixed by hand with linseed oil. Linseed oil has the propensity to grow more transparent with age and visible traces of earlier painted marks gradually appear because of this tendency - called pentimenti. I embrace this eventual outcome in my work and incorporate planned and unplanned pentimenti in my process.
"Scarlet Shadow" is painted with the finest quality oil paints on Belgian linen. The artwork is ready to hang.
MEDIUM
Oil on Linen
DIMENSIONS
80" x 80" x 3"
INSTALL INFO
Gallery Wrapped. Ready to Hang. Not framed.
YEAR
2018
AUTHENTICATION
Signed and dated by the artist on the rear of the painting.
If requested by client, Gregg Chadwick will sign the front of the painting.
My painting "Scarlet Shadow" adapts this Flemish technique onto a large scale portrait. "Scarlet Shadow" was exhibited at The Other Art Fair Los Angeles held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica and in a solo exhibition at Audis Husar Fine Art in Beverly Hills.
"Scarlet Shadow" is a dynamic large scale painting that fills a wall.
Notes on Technique:
Ghosts of earlier ideas appear within my artworks and combine with other transparent moments to create a semblance of movement, of time passing. I build a combination of shadow and illumination in each painting to create a sensation of light emanating from the work. I work with oil paint and usually create at least one color in each painting from ground pigments mixed by hand with linseed oil. Linseed oil has the propensity to grow more transparent with age and visible traces of earlier painted marks gradually appear because of this tendency - called pentimenti. I embrace this eventual outcome in my work and incorporate planned and unplanned pentimenti in my process.
"Scarlet Shadow" is painted with the finest quality oil paints on Belgian linen. The artwork is ready to hang.
MEDIUM
Oil on Linen
DIMENSIONS
80" x 80" x 3"
INSTALL INFO
Gallery Wrapped. Ready to Hang. Not framed.
YEAR
2018
AUTHENTICATION
Signed and dated by the artist on the rear of the painting.
If requested by client, Gregg Chadwick will sign the front of the painting.
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