This is a guy I’ve painted before. But I still haven’t gotten enough of his face. There’s a simplicity and honesty to his expression that thoroughly appeals to me, along with the exercise of painting black and white (that, as you can tell, really isn’t black and white).

This piece also is the product of a 3 week long demonstration I’ve led for my beginning painting students. It was a nice example of breaking the subject down into three values (the bold geometry of his markings set against the background), and working from general to specific as the layers of paint built up (you can see the looser brushwork quietly lying underneath the uppermost layers).

Boston Terrier Study, 6x12, acrylic on canvasboard, $90. Inquries to ksantini@turtledovedesigns.com .

SOLD.

By the way, I’d love some more black and white models – I have a couple of ideas floating around in the back of my head for an exhibition I have this fall. Photos can come to ksantini@turtledovedesigns.com.

Thanks, as always, for looking.
And for sharing these with friends and family.
Kim

Kimberly Kelly Santini
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