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March 15, 2009
An assumed order
I like stripes. But you’ve got to be careful with stripes. It’s easy to go too far with stripes.
The Naked Hussar, digital photograph
The body is infinite in its variety, unlike stripes which, by definition, tend to hold the same pattern. Tedium is only ever a step away with stripes.
Jo and the jacket, oil on panel, 1060mm x 1060mm
The Hussar’s jacket, with its regimented, intricate, frogging, is a good way to get stripes involved. Due to the process and the fabrics concerned there’s a degree of randomness within the order. They are to a certain extent organic.
Jo and the jacket, detail
To capture this in paint is difficult, it really makes you look, which is a Good Thing in itself. You have to paint stripes the same way you would paint a belly. It’s no good just mixing up a red and a yellow to lay down next to each other. You have to treat each part separately, depending on the light, whilst still maintaining a sense of the whole.
Helen on the big armchair, oil on panel 1060mm x 1060mm
Stripes are useful for their implied order. We can make easy assumptions about the form when the stripes become distorted.
Posted by john at March 15, 2009 01:13 AM
Comments
I like all these stripes.
Posted by: Daphne at March 15, 2009 06:24 PM