Boy With The Sad Face

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Super evocation of what I expect is 1950’s or very early 1960s. I had a pair of shorts just like those!

Posted by Tony Auffret on Thu 16 May 22:21:14

Nicely expressed and the pigments show his features of sadness and clothes from a boy in the 60's with the pink blotches revealed, and a nimble composure too. He looks timid and although he frowns you captured his expression well!

Posted by Angela Harrison on Thu 16 May 22:52:14

Thanks Tony and Angela, I’ve been told that many pairs of shorts like these were a actually cut down uniforms!

Posted by Frank Bingley on Fri 17 May 06:39:09

Full of emotion. Excellent painting.

Posted by Stephen Kelly on Fri 17 May 07:19:30

Love your painterly brushstrokes and the expression you have captured so well. Agree with all the comments below, especially that wonderful stance Frank.

Posted by Carole Kelly on Fri 17 May 09:04:52

Forgot to mention I have used interactive acrylics for landscapes but they are a bit tricky when trying to blend. How did you compare them with ordinary acrylics?

Posted by Carole Kelly on Fri 17 May 09:06:36

Thanks Stephen and Carole. Carole, yes Interactive acrylics are tricky to blend because once on the ground, they dry rapidly - you have to wet it, but then you lose the immediacy of the original brush strokes so that’s a bit of a no-no for me with this type of painting.

Posted by Frank Bingley on Fri 17 May 09:14:17

This is lovely. The simplicity, brushstrokes/expression and colours all just fantastic.

Posted by Heather Love on Fri 17 May 10:35:44

Beautiful figure, Frank.

Posted by Cesare Romano on Fri 17 May 13:36:52

Great work Frank

Posted by Russell Edwards on Fri 17 May 13:36:56

Hang on Studio Wall

16/05/2019

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Thanks to Anotoly Gray on Flickr for letting me use one of his early black and white photographs as source for this painting. I’ve had to guess at the colours, estimating clothing styles for late 50’s early 60’s. Didn’t want to fuss too much with the detail, so left a lot of the work half scummbled. This is the first time that I’ve used Atelier Interactive Acrylics, which have quite a different consistency to what I have been used to. Acrylic on paper 20x30cm.

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Frank Bingley

I've had very little tuition over the years except for a two year course during the late 1990s in watercolour. Since retirement in 2012, I now have time to pursue my love of painting. In recent years I have ventured into linoprinting, acrylics , oils and gouache. Gouache is fast becoming my…

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