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| Corporate Portrait By Johanna Spinks www.johannaspinks.com |
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| Unveiling today I met this gentleman in person last year for a life sitting to start the portrait process. |
Showing posts with label portrait artists los angeles.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portrait artists los angeles.. Show all posts
Friday, February 26, 2016
Corporate Portrait Love
Feeling the corporate portrait love...a successful unveiling of mine today in North Carolina. Thanks to the Art Spirit and great clients -like this wonderful man I had the privilege to meet and paint.
Friday, February 5, 2016
I'm Going "Under The Knife" - Museum Show
I'm going "Under The Knife"! Super excited to be invited by the Museum of Ventura County to showcase my palette knife portrait work at the Tool Room Gallery thru April, opening reception April 1st. Thank you to my friends at the Museum.
http://venturamuseum.org
I am thrilled to show this journey I have been on over the last couple of years after randomly picking up the palette knife late one night to see how I could use it in my portrait work.
It was really hard at first being so used to the brush, especially painting sitters from life. I didn't want the work to look slap-dash with that knife, but kind of refined. I stuck with it. I have got faster and more accurate painting from life with that knife. I chose to paint people who told a life story in some way, about not only theirs but mine. Close acquaintances and also people whose story had moved me.
Most of all I feel I am 'home" with that palette knife. I will never now put it down.
Mark your calendars for the opening night April 1st! Would love to see you there to share in this special and very personal art moment for me.
http://venturamuseum.org
I am thrilled to show this journey I have been on over the last couple of years after randomly picking up the palette knife late one night to see how I could use it in my portrait work.
It was really hard at first being so used to the brush, especially painting sitters from life. I didn't want the work to look slap-dash with that knife, but kind of refined. I stuck with it. I have got faster and more accurate painting from life with that knife. I chose to paint people who told a life story in some way, about not only theirs but mine. Close acquaintances and also people whose story had moved me.
Most of all I feel I am 'home" with that palette knife. I will never now put it down.
Mark your calendars for the opening night April 1st! Would love to see you there to share in this special and very personal art moment for me.
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| Under The Knife By Johanna Spinks The Museum of Ventura County Tool Room Gallery thru April 2016 |
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Little Black Dress? Nah, Red.
It's been a super busy month in the studio working on painting deadlines as you can tell from my lack of posts since January 1st.
I feel like I have been tied to my easel and I don't mind one bit.
I decided to have a little fun today in a life sitting with the lovely Jasmin thinking about Valentines Day and red dresses. I love red dresses more than just about anything else. Here is my newest one, top, and a few others I have done over the years, maybe some with some white thrown in.
I use a mixed media approach to these drawings combining oil, watercolor, pen and ink. Yes, oil and water do mix after all, all around 18 x 24".
Hope you enjoy.
Happy Valentines if I don't see you before.
Johanna
I feel like I have been tied to my easel and I don't mind one bit.
I decided to have a little fun today in a life sitting with the lovely Jasmin thinking about Valentines Day and red dresses. I love red dresses more than just about anything else. Here is my newest one, top, and a few others I have done over the years, maybe some with some white thrown in.
I use a mixed media approach to these drawings combining oil, watercolor, pen and ink. Yes, oil and water do mix after all, all around 18 x 24".
Hope you enjoy.
Happy Valentines if I don't see you before.
Johanna
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| "Campari" By Johanna Spinks Mixed Media, 18 x 24" Available for purchase here http://www.johannaspinks.com/#!illustrations/ |
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Friday, April 24, 2015
New Museum Portrait Show Coming Up...
Honored to be a judge today at the Museum of Ventura County's upcoming "Face to Face- A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Portraiture" show, July 11 - September 13 2015. Stay tuned.
Monday, October 6, 2014
Inspiration...A Special Story
I was so inspired today by my journalist daughter Rosie Spinks who spent five months in South Africa, working on a story, seeing it published via GOOD on a very delicate subject.
http://magazine.good.is/features/prostitution-legalization-decriminalization
I decided to feel inspired myself and knew I wanted to paint with a palette knife this afternoon and do a portrait of Rosie Spinks so that is exactly what I did.
Not a bad day's efforts. I like what I got even though it took me way less time than my daughter's well researched article, five months in the making, living in South Africa to find her story.
When inspiration comes, you fly with it, right?
http://magazine.good.is/features/prostitution-legalization-decriminalization
I decided to feel inspired myself and knew I wanted to paint with a palette knife this afternoon and do a portrait of Rosie Spinks so that is exactly what I did.
Not a bad day's efforts. I like what I got even though it took me way less time than my daughter's well researched article, five months in the making, living in South Africa to find her story.
When inspiration comes, you fly with it, right?
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| Palette knife portrait, "The Embroidered Top", 9 x 12", by Johanna Spinks |
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| Palette knife portrait, in progress, close-up |
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| Palette knife strokes, close up |
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