Caesura

[Rob Sullivan]

Oil on MDO, 39" x 48"

Not the best shots of this - it's not easy to photograph. One of these days I'll get it done professionally. It's no rush because I have no place to show this, except my livingroom... Figurative work - even clothed - doesn't do well in Maine, or most of New England, for that matter.

Well, one day I'll trek this and some other things back to NYC and see what happens. I have to do a few more, though, and who knows when I'll have the luxury of doing portfolio work.

Oh, this was done exclusively from life - but not all together. I did plein air studies of the seascape, and drew the model from life in my studio. I did small color studies of her, as well, to try and match the outdoor lighting. The result is okay, but were I to do it again, I would paint a study of the model either on site, or outdoors... or at least photgraph her outdoors. It was a bit of a struggle to do it the way I did it.