The King is Dead, Long Live the King, 04/11, Oil on Canvas 24 x 24 inches
update: This painting will soon be on view in Boston’s Copley Society Show – Matter, Medium, & Meaning: A Contemporary Still Life Show, curated by George Nick
19 May – 01 Jul 2011
a post-note – this painting won a Juror’s choice award
Larry,
The solidity of the back of the skull is very satisfying as well as its
color.
Thanks Hunter,
I’m glad you like it but the color in this photo doesn’t read as well as I would like – the color looks much better in real life. But at least you get a pretty good idea. I think there is a fine glare bouncing back from the impasto that interferes somehow.
This painting just got into a group show in Boston at the Copley Society curated by George Nick. http://www.copleysociety.org/exhibitions/view/7954/matter_medium__meaning_a_contemp.html
Congratulations on the group show. I’ll have a painting hanging in that
show as well. Small world. Are you shipping it? Have you done that
before?
Congratulations Hunter, it is a small world! I like your still life, one of the better ones in that show. This looks like a very good show – too bad I won’t be able to make it. I shipped my painting in a airfloat box made for shipping paintings that bought awhile back for another show that required paintings to be sent using this box, pretty expensive but reusable for paintings that will fit into it. I sent it FedEx ground – and is set to arrive tomorrow or Thurs I think. Are you going to be able to make the opening? If you do say hi to George for me!