The Poker Game Painting

This all original design and painting was inspired by my studies into cubist works of the classics like Picasso and Braque and more modern works like those of Joseph Catanzaro. This has a ton of elements of me in it and I love it. I played poker throughout my twenties and plan to make a lot of other pieces that feature elements of the game in the future. In this piece the guy in the middle has already folded, the guy on the left is all in and likes his hand so much he's got to show it to the guy in the middle, the guy on the right has a hard decision to make and he doesn't look happy about it. I modernized the instruments the way I liked them to be. Instead of the hand drum I kept seeing in old reference pieces I went with more of a drumset look. I dropped the cello in favor of a bass guitar (which is what I play too). For this design I sketched it right onto the canvas. Palette restrictions are in place here from the last cubist piece I made and I'm sticking to it for a while -- grays, umbers, siennas, black and white, with the organic and musical elements getting the browns. I pushed harder in to darker greys this time to drive background elements further back and it pushed the foreground elements further out, in turn. I like the effect. There was a lot of re-toning to get it to look 'just right' to me. Little adjustments, lots of them, and I think it paid off. I cleaned and straightened just about every zone of this twice or more and it's my cleanest work yet. This was started 7/1 and completed 7/29 of 2023, four weeks where my smile got bigger and bigger. I love this one.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:36 W x 24 H x 0.5 D in

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