LARAINE ARMENTI

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Gouache Copies

January 20, 2010 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Periodically I paint small gouache copies of great artists’s work. The copies are made using a limited palette — red, yellow, blue, and white — to create approximations from print reproductions of the originals. Aside from learning about subject and relationship, design and facture, the act of copying reveals my emotional response as each aspect of the original is encountered. Temperaments and history come to life, albeit on a miniature scale.

ABOVE: Matisse, Carmelina, 1903 — 6.75 x 4.75 in (17 x 12 cm), 08/31/09

Diebenkorn, Untitled (Still life with Iris), 1956 — 5.5 x 5 in (14 x 13 cm), 07/08/09

Luis Eugenio Melendez, Still Life with Figs, 1716-1780/undated — 4.75 x 6 in (12 x 15 cm), 01/18/10

Filed Under: Copies, Figure, Gouache & Watercolor, Painting, Still-life Indoor, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: diebenkorn, Matisse, Melendez

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