"My work explores the connection between the artist and the model, the energy exchanged between the two. It's about emotional response, tactile, visceral, abstract, created with a limited color palette, leaving the brush strokes and drips raw and unrefined. It's as much a conversation as a picture, a snapshot of emotion, a thread running between the observer and the observed. Connective Tissue."

Dysphagia No.6 — The Process


10.21.09 Posted in News by Daniel

Dysphagia No.6 - Collection of Lauren G.

A paint­ing cre­ated at Todd Leninger’s stu­dio over a six week period. Lau­ren mod­eled for this one in Todd’s exquis­ite white wing backed chair. The stu­dio is set up in a half moon with the model against the wall. There eight or so sta­tions to pick from, I chose the six o’clock posi­tion (six weeks, six 0’oclock, six lay­ers, mark of the beast, who can say).

I’ve included all the tap­ing and layer work in the images below. The process is such a ran­dom thing, it works or it doesn’t most of the time, but this one has a mid­dle ground. The play of the warm and cool, the fin­ished and unfin­ished, I can’t say what it is.



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