14 x 11 inches
Acrylic
Carol Yap
This painting started out with brushwork and I was going to leave it like that. It did stay that way for a few days and every time I walked by it, I thought, "I have to change it." When the opportunity to paint came I changed it to a palette knife portrait and the looks are much different. Raw and meaningful I would describe it. More texture, more personality, more courtroom wear and tear of a young lawyer. The former was too smooth and we know his life wasn't exactly smooth. All of these things reminded me of other painters and their feelings about painting.
Edgar Degas, "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."
Degas also said, "Painting is very easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
The funny thing is I understand both of these conflicting statements. When we are painting we are a mixed bag of emotions. Degas painted around forty self portraits at the beginning of his career. Edgar's stomach must have sank and lifted a few times.
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