another black and white.

Menange

Acrylic on 30"H x 40"W x 1.5" canvas

Available

The black and white painting "Limitless" that my daughter Emma asked that I do for her and Trey's home office has gotten the wheels turning on a black and white series.  This is the second one.  I have found these to be harder to paint than they appear.  It might  be since color comes so naturally for me that it feels as if I've got my hands tied when working with just black and white.  I would like to try one with color, then layer in the black and white with some color coming through.  The challenge is good. 

Here we are photographing outside using natural lighting.  With all the white in this painting this spot in the shade turned out to work the best.  Propped on top of a found object in order to keep the bottom edge from being in the sun.  Fancy photographing equipment. I then had to up the exposure in editing to get it to as close as possible to real thing, which is lighter than this.

This painting can be purchased from my Web Gallery or by contacting me: elizabethchapman@artlover.com


Elizabeth Chapman
Contemporary Abstract Artist

Day TWENTY FOUR

Limitless
Acrylic on 30"H x 40"W x 1.5" wrap canvas
NFS


Day TWENTY FOUR…of the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge.  This painting was a special request from my daughter Emma for her and her husband's home.  She asked that it be a black and white painting. My  last attempt at a black and white painting was Amalgama…see here.  As you see it did turn out to have a bit more color than just black/white, but it was close.  It's been one of my goals to paint a few black/white paintings so this was perfect to get me going.  Working with a limited palette turned my focus more towards texture and design.  You can click on the image to see more of a close up. The canvases for these are in, so you should be more of these to come next month.  

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Elizabeth Chapman
Contemporary Abstract Artist