Painting of the Day: I don’t know what to call you III

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Today’s Painting of the Day post is about a painting that I created in 2020. It’s titled I don’t know what to call you III, and it is one of six paintings in the series. You can find this painting in my gallery with other available artworks.

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oil on canvas, 30x23cm (12x9inches), 2020

When I started this series of portraits, I was not sure in which direction it would go. The process of creating the I don’t know what to call you III paintings was complicated. I tend to finish a 12×9 inch canvas in one or two sessions, but not this time. I began this series at the beginning of 2020 when the Covid 19 pandemic began to unleash its fury.

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First, I painted a black background in oil that I let dry. After about two weeks, I applied marks of white paint using a cloth. It was a fun and straightforward method of painting that resulted in abstract paintings that I quite liked. Then I left them in this stage for about six months, intending to come to them again and paint the actual portraits in a green color scheme. All six paintings resulted in one body of work presenting faces that I struggled to title.

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Deciding upon the title for this series of portraits was not easy, and that was for a few reasons. I was unsure of how I should title the paintings in this series because many things were going on in my head, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, the women’s rights protests in Poland, and the pandemic itself, each of which ended up turning my life upside down.

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I didn’t know which direction I wanted to go. I had the events in 2020 that occurred across the United States and the world in mind, but I wanted to distance myself from them. So, I decided to title these paintings (and the series) “I don’t know what to call you.”

Painting of the Day: I don’t know what to call you III

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Today’s Painting of the Day post is about a painting that I created in 2020. It’s titled I don’t know what to call you III, and it is one of six paintings in the series. You can find this painting in my gallery with other available artworks.

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I don’t know what to call you III

I didn’t know which direction I wanted to go. I had the events in 2020 that occurred across the United States and the world in mind, but I wanted to distance myself from them. So, I decided to title these paintings (and the series) “I don’t know what to call you.”

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