Solitude is a 16x20" egg tempera on a hardboard. I started the drawing in December 2001 and painted for the first 6 months of 2002. I was inspired by a recording of Solitude, a song sung by Billie Holiday, backed up by Duke Ellington's Orchestra. I love the luminous quality of the raw powdered pigment mixed with egg yolk. Egg tempera is an age-old traditional method of painting, but I like what the egg tempera master Robert Vickery said in 1973: "...you can defy all the rules, toss the 500 year old tradition out the window, and use egg tempera the way you want. In the process, we can revolutionize an ancient technique and make it relevant to 20th century painting."
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Solitude
Solitude is a 16x20" egg tempera on a hardboard. I started the drawing in December 2001 and painted for the first 6 months of 2002. I was inspired by a recording of Solitude, a song sung by Billie Holiday, backed up by Duke Ellington's Orchestra. I love the luminous quality of the raw powdered pigment mixed with egg yolk. Egg tempera is an age-old traditional method of painting, but I like what the egg tempera master Robert Vickery said in 1973: "...you can defy all the rules, toss the 500 year old tradition out the window, and use egg tempera the way you want. In the process, we can revolutionize an ancient technique and make it relevant to 20th century painting."
