"Ann" on Senso canvas

Chris Saper · 02-07-2008, 07:48 PM

"Ann", oil, 20 x 16. Senso canvas.

This is the second painting I've done on Senso's new canvas - here is one source. Initially I received a sale e mail from one of the supply companies and was annoyed that the minimum purchase was 2 packages of 3 canvases each. Too many square inches in the event I didn't like it

I was able to see the canvases in person at the local Jerry's and picked up two of them. I have since ordered another six!

The canvas is clear acrylic primed linen, and looks just like raw linen, that beautiful color. It has a fair amount of tooth, so for someone like me, who doesn't paint with much impasto, it takes a long time for me to fill the tooth.

This canvas is gorgeous for vignettes, just because of the beauty of the ground. It is a lovely cool gray, and a good middle value.

Chris Kolupski · 02-07-2008, 11:20 PM

This is a lovely painting, Chris. Clear decisive color value statements with variety of edges. Strong modeling without harsh feel to shadows. I like your direct manner. And you project the subject's personality very well. Now I can buy some of those canvases to try...

Mary Ann Archibald · 02-08-2008, 06:42 AM

This vignette is beautiful.

I adore your work, Chris. (And sneakers that I've read about too.

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Thanks for sharing information about that canvas, had never heard of it before.

Alexandra Tyng · 02-08-2008, 10:43 AM

Chris,

Thanks for the info about the canvases.

The portrait vignette is something you do so well, and I think this one is particularly successful. i like how you put the shadowy blue down first, extended it out just a little more than the light, which you built up n top of it. Even though you say you do not work with much impasto, the blue in the light looks thick and dimensional. Another thing I admire is your strong and sure modeling, which somehow achieves new heights here, maybe because the gradations are subtle. Beautiful, Chris!

Could we have another closeup centered on the face?

David Draime · 02-08-2008, 11:53 AM

Beautiful job, Chris. Very sure-handed. This painting exudes confidence.

David

Chris Saper · 02-08-2008, 01:51 PM

Thank you all very kindly.

Aside from some temporary image sizing frustration, here are more close- ups.

Alex, I laugh at your comment, as I would like to use thicker paint, and I struggle to overcome beginning this portrait work as a pastel painter. (Save the tooth, save the tooth!)

The tooth is making me use more paint - finally some training wheels for impasto!

John Ennis · 02-08-2008, 02:16 PM

Hi Chris,

Beautiful head study! Does the canvas have the uneven weave of linen?

Carlos Ygoa · 02-09-2008, 06:44 AM

Beautiful work here, Chris.
Solid drawing (as usual) and wonderful use of colour and the way you exploited the surface of the canvas. I especially like the way you handled the model

Allan Rahbek · 02-09-2008, 08:58 AM

Chris,
you have a wonderful, confident way of building the form, it reminds me of Green's pastels.

The color of the canvas is great and it can easily be modified with a wash. It would be easy to make from raw linen if it is primed with acrylic priming only, I guess.

Thomasin Dewhurst · 02-09-2008, 11:25 AM

Great work, Chris. As Allan says, the paint looks so much like pastel work on this canvas, and the grey brings out the colours so beautifully.