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Over at Zoe in Wonderland a fantastic new maquette has appeared.
Zoe wrote to me:
‘I’m super-happy that you like it. I’m so glad you showed me how to do these. They change the whole process for me. They allow me to play much more on the panel. (Otherwise I’m too afraid of mucking things up and being left with gummy lumps of paint.) I can take a lot more chances with these. It also helps so much with composition, because of seeing how things ‘fit’. It’s endlessly helpful.’
…Zoe has really taken to heart the use of maquettes as compositional tools, and her recent paintings illustrate how well the practice is working for her. I keep returning to this one, shown recently at her blog site together with the maquettes that were used to make it. I find that horse head fitted snugly between the man and woman most compelling.…
Agwe and Erzulie…
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I saw Zoe’s hoofed woman yesterday for the first time, wonderful and mysterious. Zoe really has adapted very naturally to the use of studio maquettery (word?). In fact it is from a recent post that i better understood the practice. If Clive is the patron saint ( which undoubtedly he is), then Zoe is a marvelous disciple.
thank you chloe, marly and phil, for your generous comments
thank you again for your help, and thanks for making my morning with this surprise!
clive, i can’t tell you how happy it makes me that you like these– you are the absolute patron saint of painters
My pleasure Zoe.
Love these images from Zoe, the dynamic poses, the colour and the wonderful facial expressions really have some energy and some feeling
You may end up by influencing a whole generation of painters by your unique uses of the flat, jointed maquette… Because that mode of trying and testing and planning a composition leads to very distinctive results.
Zoe loves that shade of blue! My favorite is the Agwe and Erzulie piece. Shall have to wander by and see what the narrative behind it is when I come up for air. I’m sure there’s a story.
I particularly like that painting of Zoe’s too, she uses the maquettes so well!