This is a recently-finished painting in oil paint and pencil, on an old table top that was in the medieval Italian house that I bought 10 yrs ago; I used the surface as a table top for a long time!
Then a friend gifted me another, bigger table, and I realised that this was such a lovely surface to work on. It took around a year to come to completion... This is an earlier phase of it.
And this is a later stage:
Often my paintings sit for some time between phases, then I'll work intensively on them for many hours and many days.
I used oil pastel underneath this work, and had a lot of movement in the marks, before defining them.
Unusually, the figures didn't change much from the beginning: often I find that they morph and transform a lot more before finishing.
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The painting is sold to a beautiful client who already has a piece of my work: she bought a piece that she's also using as artwork for a gorgeous book she's just published, for young women. I love being part of that!
So the painting is drying still (it wants at least a few weeks/ a month to dry fully) before shipping... I use Old Holland high quality cold-pressed oil colours - extremely expensive, the most wonderful pigments and durability... And thanks to my Patreon patrons and folks supporting my online workshops recently, I was able to invest in new tubes of painting and a big bottle of poppyseed oil!! HEAVEN!
Much love and colour and creative inspiration to you all today!
Clare xx
This is beautiful Clare!! 😍 I remember way-back-when in The Secret reading about art images - that if you want warmth and romance and intimacy in your life, you should display that reality - that the image is medicine to yoru vibration and your imagination.
It's a beautiful image to hang in a boudoir. I particularly like that you have maintained the androgeny.
Oooh, so lovely that you see this in the painting - and I love the truth of that in The Secret, too! I did a lot of more cathartic and frictional-emotion work in my earlier years, but through being more and more open to pure creative Flow, I'm finding a profound peace between the figures - a deep joy and purity of energy... Art is such an incredible transformative tool <3 And yes! The beautiful client who is buying it, told me it is for her marriage's 18 yr anniversary - such a blessed mutually-beneficial exchange! <3
What a marvellous artwork, Clare! I love their facial expressions. Perfect painting! 🤗
Thank you hugely, @trincowski :-D It's great to be back here sharing more regularly - I got stuck for a while with how to share videos and voice files on Hive... slowly slowly getting the hang of it... Hope you're well!