Figure Painting Video Demo: September's Embers

Watch as artist Tina Jones creates her figure painting "September's Embers" from start to finish. The painting was done using oils, and is 30x40 inches (76x100 cm). Tina says: "This painting was done in response to a call to artists at a league/museum that I belong to for a show with the theme 'Recycling', in which artists could use recycled goods, paint or draw a picture with the theme of recycling, or recycle an old theme. I chose the latter. One of my favorite paintings is Lord Leighton's 'Flaming June', and I recyled his theme to depict what might have quelled June's flames. The child represents the end results of June's passion, and her coming to contentment. June's flames are now June's love. The child is dressed in white for purity and looks not to the mother, but to her own future. The colors on my palette were cobalt blue, indigo, cadmium orange, yellow ocher, Indian yellow, light red, alizarin crimson, ultramarine violet, sap green, raw umber and burnt sienna, and white.

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