Original picture
I looked at the picture and told him that I indeed did see some faces staring back at me. Last week, he asked me if I could have a go at painting faces that I saw in the rocks and this is what happened.
I took the original image above, inverted it completely, studied the contrast levels by looking at areas that contain the greatest shifts in contrast and decided to paint faces that I saw in the inverted rocks.
Inverted rocks
'Zephyrus Cupid and Phyche', Oil on canvas, 24 " X 36"
I remember thinking that each of us sees the nature around us in different ways and this was just one way to look at it. I also remember thinking looking up to the sky on cloudy days and trying to decipher and attribute the wondrous figures that form ever so ephemerally in the ethereal reaches of the upper atmosphere and then so suddenly shift away in the winds. I saw Zephyrus Cupid and Phyche playing on the canvas when it was complete.
2 comments:
I love it. Not just the painting but the interplay between the two artists as well.
Tree,
Thanks very much. I enjoyed working on this project a lot.
It is funny how a story changes the preception one has towards abstract work...
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