Sunday, December 23, 2007

Rotten Apples


So, i'm off for christmas holidays and i've FINALLY had a chance to do some artwork of my own. Thought i'd kill two birds with one stone and give some art as an xmas gift to my sister. This painting is actually of her, which i painted from a photo, in acrylic paint on canvas (sorry for the blurry photo). I also included some lyrics on the painting from a song by [non other than] the Smashing Pumpkins called Rotten Apples: "Dirty your face/ With longing, and grace"
I used a modeling paste and piped the words onto the canvas and then painted over them to create a sort of embossed look. It's been ages since i've painted so it was really nice to get back to basics.....

4 comments:

Richtoon said...

Nice to see you posting again!! Please post more!

James said...

it looks beautiful, the color and emotion work very well. and great use of modeling paste

Anonymous said...

This is a painting??? That's amazing. Good work girl :)

Courtney Dobbs said...

yep, it's acrylic on canvas, about 24x30". Thanks for the comment! :)