I was recently commissioned by my longtime friend and patron Cathy Hutchison to create a painting. Because she is a fan of the way my mind works (and a really awesome lady), Cathy just pointed out a couple of my previous pieces and explained what appealed to her about them, but released me to do whatever I wanted within those loose parameters.
One of the pieces she liked was my
Father's Day piece, a sweet digital cartoon drawing of me and my daughter, so I started off to do another drawing in that vein as the basis for the painting:
So I did this sketch, which is supposed to be my daughter sitting in my lap (sleeping? reading? whatever). I liked this one a lot, but decided not to commit at this stage.
Having said that, I was really enamored with that the way that chair was looking. I felt it, and believed I could paint it well. But I tried the drawing on a love seat, with a woman reclining with a daughter instead.... Not bad.
At this point, the name of the painting was "Love Seat", because I liked the sound of it, and I toyed with the idea of drawing Cathy and her husband into the painting. At this point, though, I decided that was a bridge too far.
Even though I do portraits all the time, I was not even a little bit interested in getting into portraiture on this painting. Maybe next time, right?
I can draw myself with no pressure to be accurate, so I
kinda modeled the "husband" after myself (for some reason, I love drawing my pot belly!), sitting on the titular piece of furniture with a special lady (whose pose I am clearly still working out at this stage) who is reading a book.
So I used a lightbox to trace the sketch onto another sheet to nail down the poses and what not. This drawing would be the "anchor" image to the painting.
So I didn't take a lot of pictures of my process unfortunately, but I sketched the figures in the middle of the canvas in yellow, then painted the couch. I decided to revisit the theme of
my old drawing Miraculous, which features two lovers surrounded by angels that are celebrating their union. Here, I painting a halo around the lovers for the angels to inhabit. See some detail images and the final complete piece below.
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| Love Seat by Samax Amen. 24 "x 36" Acrylic and India ink on canvas |
And here we have the final piece. Not to sound all arrogant, but I'm SUPER happy with how
Love Seat came out! Again, I'm sorry I didn't take pics of the painting process in stages. I will do better next time! But anyways, please feel free to drop questions, feedback and/or commission requests in the comments, on social media, or
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