Returning to Oil Painting
Who are you?
Jamie Cook Simon
What is your project?
It’s showtime. I have pivoted to oil, and I have missed this medium deeply!! I am sharing these first 3 very simple monochromatic paintings that are part of a class. My only hope it I don’t over-paint them as they go into the next stages.
I feel proud that I only use my own images and a model as subjects. I will continue to work figuratively and landscape at the same time.
Can we see some photos?
These are 3 studies, and the second and third are only in their first layer:
Trees outside my window
Chelsea, Manhattan Sept 13, 2001
A link to your work:
If anyone is interested in seeing the paintings from the last 2 years, they are on Instagram under @jamiecooksimonart
What will you ship at the end of 6 months?
There are at least 10 pieces that need to be added. I can do that quickly next week. Perfect is the enemy of done and so many of them I thought I would go back into, but what if I just try putting works in progress on there? What is the harm in that? Maybe it will keep me from refining something that had a good raw feeling to it. So that’s the goal for next week:
Photograph and post incomplete ink and acrylic drawings from this last phase
Focus only on painting in oil
Spend 1 hr researching galleries
Thank you for visiting!