Designing with Shapes of Color

My fun friend Sally came over the other day to paint.

We decided to try doing an abstract figure based on a 

very washed out sepia toned photo a friend had given me. 

There were no clear passages of light or dark,

so the challenge was to "design" the painting with shapes of color.  

"Red Hat" 

8 x 10 

I used a gesso board, synthetic brushes, and lots of paint 

to keep myself from any detail. 

This was an interesting exercise! 

With a little stretch of the imagination, 

it almost feels like one of 

Richard Diebenkorn's figures!?   

PS. Sally and I both work with Alzheimer patients 

and she gave my group a wonderful tour of an art show yesterday. 

You can read about it on my other blog here.