RC whitlock - paintings and sculpture

Friday, March 23, 2012

Posted by RCW at 8:10 PM

▼ 2012 (2)
- ▼ March (2)
  - I've been concentrating on my portraits recently...
  - Studio preparing for show at the New Amsterdam ...

RCW: I couldn't have painted when I was younger, now I can, and I'm bursting with ideas. My still life's use puppets, dolls and toys that populate my home here in Berkeley. I'm trying to achieve what NY Times critic Michael Kimmelman feels a painting should be: "a mirror we hold up that looks different to everyone who sees it, and whose beauty lies as much in us, and our capacity to dream as it does in what is on the canvas." These last few years I've been focusing on painting portraits and the figure from models and of friends here in Berkeley. My painting has become less factual and more impressionist (for lack of a better term). I'm relying on my gut to direct the color and form of the painting and searching for a personal style.

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