It took me twenty-seven years to get back to this idea. On Friday I stumbled upon the sketchbooks that I was working from in July and August of 1985. Here are two small sketches from the painting(-s) I finished in early August and September '85. I never got around to painting the one below until this weekend. Go figure.
The finished painting is from the left-hand sketch is owned by Jim and Ellen O'Hara.
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| Study for Lisa's Space, summer 1985 |
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Girl on Couch 24" x 30" (in progress) oil on canvas
This is a straight-up figure painting (no bau irony) based on some old drawings from 1985 (some of you from long, long ago might recognize the model)- but the socks were borrowed from a newer set of paintings and a different model.
I managed to mangle the working drawing but here is a similar one from the same sitting.
