Pepper Tango
Holy Trinity
Mama's Cooking |
Each original is 10" x 10". They are painted on 1" thick maple boards with hand-painted sides. These paintings arrive at your door ready to hang and do not need to be framed.
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Pepper Tango
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Artists Inspiration: Peppers are so full of
life, I love the idea of them dancing.
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Holy Trinity
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Artists Inspirations: I once attended the New
Orleans School of Cooking. I learned that in southern cooking,
peppers, onions & celery are called the holy trinity. Its
found in many southern cooking recipes.
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Mama's Cooking |
Artists Inspirations:
I had a lot of fun creating this original painting. Its an ode
to mama's and cooking everywhere. In the south, watch out for those
pesky (but pretty) tree frogs and you have to eat some blue crabs.
I wrote the verse and it goes:
Mama be cooking on da bayou
Holy trinity & spice for da gumbo
Daddy be fishin in his piroque
Tonight a party and a little zydeco
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These original works of art
are sculptures as well as a paintings!
All the elements were sculpted in low relief before being
painting in pure egg tempera.
This art work was painted in many layers of egg tempera made from natural ground stones and egg yolk. Linda Paul uses lapis lazuli, malachite and ochers from ancient mines in Provence France to make her paint. read more about the French ochre mines
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Here is the process by which these original paintings were created
1. Sketching
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sketch for "Pepper Tango"
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sketch for Holy Trinity
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Sketch for "Mama's Cooking". I am having a lot of fun
with this piece. Its going to have a sculpted crab, frog , bar of
music with pepper notes and a verse I wrote to go along with it |
After the sketches are done, I study them to see if I like the placement of the main elements, I look at positive and the negative space between the elements. Color is barely a thought at this stage. But I find myself being inspired by the colors in a blue crab. Because this series will be sculpted in bas-relief, I have to nail down the placement of the elements because I can not move them once they are sculpted.
2. The Sculpting Process
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"Pepper Tango" is sculpted.
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Holy Trinity is sculpted. See how I moved the pepper over from the sketch above
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Mama's cooking. Frog, crab and
bar of music are sculpted in bas-relief
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Then I paint the sculptures and voila, the finished paintings
as seen above
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