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The Fitting Room"...features three of my daughters in a fitting room trying on prom dresses. After seeing the movie Loving Vincent (an animated movie painted in oil about Vincent Van Gogh), I was compelled to paint something in an Impressionistic style. I painted two loose self portraits first, then desired something more challenging."
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The Fitting Room is a Neo-Impressionistic piece (Pointillism). I had taken this photo years before, and had been "saving it" for the right moment. I chose to execute it in this style because it reminds me of Degas' ballerinas, it conveys movement and captures a fleeting moment in space and time. It is personal, but, it also has a modern "twist" that I liked. Even though it harkens to Old Masters, it has inclusion of me, the proud mom, in the reflections taking a photo with my cell phone (a "modern twist")..
Monet would "leach" his paints, that is, put them on heavy fabric or paper to absorb the oil, so that he could work with heavy body pigment. I saved time and got a similar effect by adding a cold wax medium to my paint to achieve the heavy body effect. It also shortened the dry time, and I was able to layer paint with reckless abandon without any adherence issues.
Monet would "leach" his paints, that is, put them on heavy fabric or paper to absorb the oil, so that he could work with heavy body pigment. I saved time and got a similar effect by adding a cold wax medium to my paint to achieve the heavy body effect. It also shortened the dry time, and I was able to layer paint with reckless abandon without any adherence issues.
