family portrait

[panta rhei]

here's a draft of a family portrait (me, my brother, my parents) i wanted to do for my parents for christmas... but the draft took me so long that there was no time left for the real thing and i ended up wrapping the draft for them.



december 05, acrylics on paper, 29 cm x 21 cm

[Zlatko Waterman]

Excellent "draft", Panta:

As is sometimes the case with me, a sketch, with its spontaneity, turns out to be better than a labored, detailed "finished" work.

As Jean Dubuffet said:

"Finished" often means just that-- wrecked and unable to stand again on its own . . ."

Quite magically, your "draft" seems to me to be "the real thing . . ."


http://wwar.com/masters/d/dubuffet-jean.html


Fine work, Panta . . .


--Z

[panta rhei]

thanks, zlatko - yes, the nature of the real thing often shows only in comparison with our idea of it....

[Artguy]

draft or not...it looks like it was done with love...

[judih]

i think you're amazing! How have you had time to paint this?
A draft? excellent warm tones.
Would you consider working on a self-portrait next? just you done from an angle?

[panta rhei]

a self portrait ?
i did quite a few of them when i was very young - found it an interesting way to transcend ego via total focus on myself.

haven't done one for a while (except for cartoon versions) - would be interesting to try again.

yes, why not....

here are two examples from quite some time ago:


me (left) age 15 with my friend barbara, after a photo, pencil, 1984



painting with a mirror in front of me, oil on canvas, ca. 1986


and here's a more recent cartoon version:


part of a cartoon , 2000

[Arcadia]

very beautiful and very different each one of them!
thanks for posting these,

Arcadia

[panta rhei]

... and thanks to you, veronica, for lookign and commenting!

[judih]

loud applause
i love the first!

the second is like a friend from the blue period

and the cartoon is simply superb

all of them you
all of them lovely