Nocturne 13 Painting

The Nocturne Paintings are part of a series of monotone paintings in range of colours using a technique of rubbing or scratching away the paint surface to reveal a human form; essentially a drawing in paint. Historically this type of image - particularly those using brown tones such as Raw Sienna and Van Dyke Brown - would be the first layer or 'ebauche' of a figure painting. Interestingly Rubens who drew in both ochre and gray paint would often leave large portions of this first layer to show through in his final paintings. The reddish brown underpainting would also be used to create what are known as optical grays - bluish gray tones created by scumbling semi-transparent white paint over a reddish/brown ground creating the effect of mid-tone shadows. My work is somewhere between painting and drawing - concerned with gestural immediacy and the physical attributes of paint which would become the lietmotif of Modernist painting. Although not explicit, the work of Degas and his pupil Sickert were clearly at the back of my mind, in particular the latter's Camden Town nudes. www.donaldshort.co.uk

Painting:Oil on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11.7 W x 16.5 H x 0.8 D in

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