Lady smoking a cigar with friends Print

I wanted lots of bright colours but not too bright, I wanted something of the night about it. I wanted this painting to look real, like a bar scene anywhere in the world, and I wanted the woman smoking a big cigar which states ‘I don’t give a damn what you think, I do what I want to do’. I wanted the three characters looking a little shady, a little of the dark, if they talk at all it’s in whispers from the side of their mouths, she’s uttering something to one and something different to the other. I loved painting this scene it’s a bar late at night, a lady of dubious character enjoying a cigar and a glass of wine with friends in a bar, I say dubious as I’m not quite sure what’s she’s doing with her right hand, whatever it is she looks bored, in fact they all look a little lost and something on their left is attracting their attention. The guy with the cigarette in his mouth probably has a little more then tobacco in there. I love the colours and the characters, who knows what they are thinking or who wants to. I’ll leave that up to you. I sit at a clean canvas, my imagination, oils, brushes, knife and fingers ready to start work, I have an idea, I start to paint, my head is telling my hands what to do, but sometimes my head changes so I delete and start again and so it goes until I’m happy with my work, then sometimes I use a palette knife to cover the whole canvas in random strokes and I see something like a photo an image and follow my feelings. I get a lot of my inspiration from three artist; Claude Monet with his use of colour, his expressiveness, detail and the softness of his beautiful paintings, Vincent van Gogh with his bold use of colour his expressiveness, and I like to think I’m a little impulsive like him, and Lowry unbelievable he produced the work he did just using five colours. My art tells stories, not always happy and joyful, not always bright and full of light, but always full of my feelings, vivid, interesting and thought-provoking. I always try to put something of myself in my paintings; in the form, the colours, the brush stokes, my feelings, my joy, sometimes my darkness but I hope mostly joy and happiness.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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