Sitting on the park bench

"Sitting on the park bench" is not just the first sentence of the song Aqualung by Jethro Tull (I love the songs of this band), but it's also the title of my new oil painting on canvas.

I chose this title because it sounds like the original title of the photo of Diane Arbus that inspired this artwork: Woman on a park bench on a sunny day, took in N.Y.C in the 1969.

The photo of Diane Arbus is in black and white, but when I started to think about the project to paint a collection of paintings inspired by her works, I chose to add colors on those faces. This is one of the reasons I love b/w photos: my imagination is free to think about the colors of the scenes.

In this case, I figure this old woman in a ocher dress, just because I love how the ocher works with the shade of green I used for the background.

This is the fourth piece that I painted for this collection and I hope to have enough artworks to do an exhibition the next year. The pieces are in different size, everyone is an oil painting on canvas and to undertsand better the size of this new piece I took this pic:

As you can see in my photo, I was wearing my "work dress": comfortable old gym clothes full of different spots of color ^_^ Usually, when I'm really focused working on something new, I have also my face full of spots and a couple of time I went out to home forgetting to clean my face. Maybe someone thought I was a little strange, but fortunately it happened just few time :D

Coming back to my new painting (it's drying in the lab), you can see the first sketch here and the first step of the oil painting here. As I wrote in those previous posts, I was very intrigued by the pic of Diane Arbus of this old woman with a '60 hair style. She looks so elegant with her perfect make up and the pearl necklace (just a note, Diane Arbus tooks different pics of women with a pearl necklace ^_^). I like her wrinkles, I think every her wrinkle hide an interesting story to know.

I hope you like it.

Good night to everyone and see ya tomorrow

Silvia

I have not heard the song but Know of woman in a park bench by Diane Arbus, i get those spots when working on something and dont have the time, stress spots, love the work dress lol @silviabeneforti and good job.

Many thanks, @simonjay !!! ^_^

Such a gorgeous portrait, @silviabeneforti :) Love your style so much ! You capture so much of a personality in this one, and her expression is well painted <3 Those intense eyes and her small smile is absolutely endearing !

Love it <3

Many thanks for your nice words ^_^

I love her and your style. She is like a wonderful doll I'd love to possess and put in my doll's house :) I especially love her hair and pearls, makes me think of my mum.

The original photos of Diane Arbus is simply fantastic and I couldn't resist to represent it in my style ^_^ This aged woman has a strange smile, almost like the strange smile of the Gioconda :P

That turned out wonderful!

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She looks lovely. I love the that the head is so big. It gives it kind of a personality. Also the combination of the dress and background is very nice. Thank you for sharing!

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