Judith Kittel

This painting was done at a workshop I attended at my painting group, Gawler Art Society.  The painting is from a photograph that Gerhard Ritter took of his grandson. Gerhard kindly gave me permission to use the painting for display purposes.

I was very pleased with the finished result as I chose to paint him in my own impressionist style.  His shirt appeared with only a few overstrokes of a large brush over the laid in colour - I was delighted with the result 

I have taken some artistic licence & left the painting at a stage that was pleasing to me even though I left the little boy looking younger & slightly more full in the face than what the original photo was.

 I love to paint with Gerhard when he comes to Gawler, he is a lovely man who loves to teach as well as to paint & is a well known artist who lives here in Sth Australia

This clown was painted using a very limited palette of mostly Chromacryl Student Acrylics although I did use two or three earth colours in Jo Sonja paints also. He needs a bit more work but I thought I would pop him up anyway for now. I used only warm red, yellow and blue & cool red, yellow & blue plus the few earth colours for toning

I sketched and painted him using a picture from an old Walter Foster book as the "model," although I have made him look younger than the original, so I think of him as "Clown's Son" :-))