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Old 12-29-2006, 09:15 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by Michele Rushworth
Nice composition of the seated girl!
I think it may have something to do with the viewers perspective. We view her at a slightly up angle, as if we are in the audience in front, and she is on a stage just above us. It gives her a nice airy, elevated sense. Not to mention that it's just so well done. He was quit the watercolorist.

I don't know what to make of the second one. It has some of the look of "Whistler's Mother." It's an odd way of sitting on that odd chair. The subject is also pulled a little more foreward, giving her slightly more room behind in the composition than we might expect to see. And with that down turned head - it all makes me wonder ...

I love the last one's shock of color, but I'm a bit puzzled by the sharply rendered leaves just beneath her right hand. Aha, maybe it's a basket of leaves that she's carrying?

Here are a couple more by Homer:

1- Charles Savage Homer Jr., watercolor 7x5"
2- The Butterfly Girl, 37x24"
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