elise dodeles art

From the archives

I updated the paintings page of this website, confining the work to approximately the last seven years so these images had to go. They exhibit my more expressionistic style, and some are painted collages, juxtaposing images from my personal photographs as well as those found in special collections and archives.

oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches, 2012
oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, November 27, 2012
oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches 2011
oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches 2011

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Evolution of a Portrait

First stage with blue ground and outlines in raw and burnt umbers
Addition of beard and shadows
Broad colors of skin tones laid in
More detailed lights, darks and middle tones applied
Beard and more details added; tones blended to more realistically express features
Almost completed: shirt and background elements added

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