Claudette Losier
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Acadian Story Teller (Oil)


I am experimenting with painting techniques that I am picking up this past year.  I met wild life artist Bishop in London in the summer who used this form of grid technique to paint an owl on display which I thought would be interesting for me to try out where he does not prehand sketch the owl but paints it in tonally via using the grid as his map.  I also tinted this canvas terre green something I don't normally do and was going to use the old masters technique of first painting it like a black and white photograph to get the tones right before painting in the actual colours.   I like this tonal painting using purple, magenta and white so much I don't want to add in the actual colours.  Will do another for that!   My Dad was the model for this painting.  Since childhood I notice that my Dad love to tell personal history stories of his life and family in Tracadie NB plus he loves history and talking about it so I am calling him a story teller.   I am very lucky to have a story telling Dad in today's society just like a native who pass on their history to the new generations.   I am considering taping my Dad and his stories to record them for history as he is now 80 so that I can remember those stories when he is gone.  The photo copy of my resource I have including in this pic and I just thought right now it would be interesting to polymer emulsion it as a transfer art piece in itself to hang beside the painting!!!  What a wonderful idea.

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