The Priest & The Getaway
March 15, 2017
The Priest
This painting is very similar to ‘The Confession’ as it is an image of the same subject from another angle. I like this image quite a lot, however it doesn’t give off the same feeling as the other painting. I think that this is because it doesn’t have the same palette and range of contrasting colours, like red with the blue.
I painted this one to go alongside The Confession, and I think that the two look good together, however, I also think that The Confession has a better composition, and when they are put together, they look a little off balance. Not sure whether I like that, but I’ll try and keep them together in the show.
The Getaway
I really like the yellow jacket in this painting, I think that it contrasts really well with the darkness of the background, and the colour of the face. However, I am not sure whether I like that the face is so obscured. While I have been making the faces abstract for the rest of my other drawings, I haven’t done one so close up before, and I think that the face may look a little ‘creepy’ and I don’t think that is the effect I wanted for this image, as I wanted something more mysterious than maleficent.
In my next painting I want to do something similar to this, without the closeup on the face. I was thinking of doing something like ‘The Chase’ in terms of composition, while making use of the contrast that you find in his jacket in ‘The Getaway’.
