Impressionist Portraits Series 7

Edouard Manet (from Public Domain photo)
Oil on Canvas Panel
5 x 7 in/12.7 x 17.8 cm
Copyright Byrne Smith 2018

Well, it has been a while since I last submitted one of my impressionist portraits to The Painting Life. However, there are several others I still wanted to paint, including today's Edouard Manet.

This marks the 7th in my impressionists series, the others being Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Frederic Bazille, and Mary Cassatt.

I hope you enjoy viewing Edouard Manet and the others as much as I enjoyed painting each one.

Cheers!

In a World...

Matagorda
Oil on Canvas Panel
12 x 12 in/30.5 x 30.5 cm
Copyright Byrne Smith 2018

Painters assimilate, encompass, and combine.

Painters evaluate and envision.

Painters experiment, volumize, sculpt, and express; oftentimes, something out of nothing.

In other words, painters create worlds, and in those worlds lives their vision, if only for a moment in time.

Painting Summer in the Middle of Winter

Sunflowers!
Oil on Paper
12 x 16 in/30.5 x 40.6 cm
Copyright Byrne Smith 2018

During this long and, surprisingly, cold winter even here in the semi-tropics, I find that painting summer scenes helps. Or at least it helps me get through January.

I hope this warms you up, in the northern hemisphere anyway. I did this one in oil on gessoed Arches 140 lb/300gsm watercolor paper. It makes a very nice, if somewhat unorthodox, painting surface for oil anyway. The gesso keeps the oil paint on the surface, but it's that great texture of the Arches paper I really like. I may do one using acrylic next.

Oh, and Happy New Year, too.