“Alice”

Watercolor & Gouache on paper

    22” x 19” image in a 4”-wide

     white acid-free mat & a

     half-inch wide shiny black

     metal frame, 30” x 27”

Original

Painting $1,600...

(The original painting does not

have the watermark.)

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“Alice” is one of a series of paintings I created a few years ago, which I refer to as my ‘orange nudes’.  I had accumulated quite a lot of sketches made from live models, and I wanted to express them in watercolor, but in a more abstract style than the drawings.      The two major colors I used for the figures were Alizarin Crimson and Cadmium Orange.  Unlike my normal technique of working wet-on-wet across the entire sheet, I concentrated on focusing on the figure primarily, then adding the background later.

    The title is pure whimsy on my part.  As I completed the painting, I was listening to a song of the same name by one of my favorite musician/songwriters, Tom Waits.

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“Alice”,

by Isobel George, Painter