Josie Carlie and Eddy, dyptic

[Linda Nelson]

Josie and Charlie are twins, and Eddy is their older brother. In my opinion, when there are three people in the scene, one person can look like the "odd man out." So I composed the idea of this work to be a dyptic - they are together as a whole scene, but Josie gets to be the star of her own painting, and Charie and Eddy have a great older brother-younger brother dynamic.

You can't see it until you really look, but there is a Monarch butterfly at the far left of Josie's canvas.

These were framed together in a frame without a rabbet, so I gallery wrapped the canvas and painted the edges. They float in the frame and from each other about a 1/4 inch.

As with many of my paintings , I try composing paintings that are not only meaningful now, but will best stand the chance of being appreciated by the future spouses and children of these kids, so that the painting comtinues to live on, and not be stuck in some next generation's attic

:-)

[Terri Ficenec]

Linda-- Boy you've sure been busy!!! These are just lovely! I love the way you set your subjects outdoors so naturally.

So I figure the little girl will one day get her own. . . but which brother gets the boys?

[Linda Nelson]

They'll have to fight it out :-). Actually it's amazing how quickly that issue arises after the painting is delivered. I often make 1/2 size giclee reproductions for my clients' parents, inlaws. Ithink they feel someday the children will get grandmas giclee.

[Richard Monro]

Linda,
Your paint brushes must be on fire from the speed at which you have been moving them.

These are beautiful. Pairing them as a dyptic is a stroke of genius. The composition is great but what I like the most is the looseness of your style. It is loose but it reads so well. Stunning.

P.S. - You and Kim Dow will have to duke it out for the most prolific painter of the year award.

[Linda Brandon]

Oh Linda! Very nice job! Very Bastien-LePage, I love it.
I also have a diptych, nearly done, of children in a two square/one rectangle format. I love this design parameter and I love what you have done with yours and the fresh and loose outdoor color.

[Linda Nelson]

Thanks Richard and Linda - Linda I look forward to seeing yours. I have often looked forward to doing a a multi canvas approach, but this was the first project where it was really the "obvious" way to go. Given it's benefits, it's surprising it's not done more often.

And having you mention Bastien-LePage is awesome. I've been studying him and a few others lately and it must of leaked out through my brush. Cool!

Richard, thanks for the compliments. I have been a painting banshee these past few months, and I can attest wholeheartedly that there is no better way to not only learn but discover and invent who you are on canvas.

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Linda, this is a very good work!
The diptych is not such a straight forward thing as you make it appear! I really like the idea of having two on one side and one on the other, it avoids a dangerous symmetry.
The painting is extremely successful, and not only as a portrait !

Ilaria

[Alexandra Tyng]

Originally Posted by Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco

it avoids a dangerous symmetry.

I agree. And you've done a lovely job of the textures and colors of the outdoor setting.

Can you tell us a little about how you and the client settled on this arrangement? Did the client give you carte blanche? Did you discuss the topic of who would get what eventually before you began the painting? I think many of us would be interested to hear how this came about.

[Tom Edgerton]

Linda--

Wonderful paintings! I saw a similar arrangement at a client's several years ago, except it was three kids on three separate canvases in one frame, so they could inherit the paintings later as adults. What makes it work well is when there is a common horizon, as in yours.

Wish I'd thought of it....

--TE

[Michele Rushworth]

Another lovely and fresh job. You certainly have a look that is all your own. And as Tom wrote:

What makes it work well is when there is a common horizon, as in yours.