Churchill

My latest personal painting is of the great Winston. The Cadmium Yellow/Titanium White mix brushing upwards between the black of his suit and the rich timber grains of the panels creates a warm light that completes the narrative initiated by the warm skin tones of his face. The room is warm. The painting is warm.

I used a black and white photo as the template for this, so I am fortunate that the warmth found consistency across the piece; the stern seriousness of the stare is impervious to any softness engendered by the warm palette and thus embodies a pleasantly jarring contrast for us to focus our attention, get lost in. His context, his surrounds, his situation is believable, tangible: it’s warm - you can feel it. So you trust it, trust it enough to get lost in the stare.