summer reading

monotype, 8 x 8

I collected many new art books after taking Joseph Mann's painting the figure workshop earlier this month. Now my reading is all about Matisse, Cezanne, Post-Impressionists, Picasso, Leland Bell, and others. 

Here's a portion of my summer reading list. Maybe you will see something that piques your interest!

Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, John Elderfield

Henri Matisse Drawings 1936

Cezanne, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Cezanne His Life and Works in 500 Images, Susie Hodge

Post Impressionism, Nathalia Brodskaia

Picasso and Photography: The Dark Mirror

Anne Baldassari

Leland Bell, Nicholas Fox Weber

The Killers "Read My Mind."

figures and Matisse

I am experimenting with figure painting and how I might turn a sketch from life drawing into a painting. This is a new piece and as I painted it, I was thinking of Matisse and his wild use of color and curved lines for figures.

22 x 30 acrylic on BFK

Here is an inspiring video showing many paintings of Henri Matisse. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have!

Matisse at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Mademoiselle Yvonne Landsberg, 1914, Henri Matisse

Young woman, or budding flower? It's hard to tell. And it doesn't matter, does it?