School Lunch: 9 x 12 oils

School Lunch, an oil sketch, and the consequence of painting from my imagination. An exercise inspired by my friend Peter Cusack.

I moved paint around early in the painting which resulted in an impression of a face with a pointed head, and the pointed head reminded me of a dunce cap, which I associated with education or school.

Inspired by the way Vuillard established value and pattern and the optical melting of objects, http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/vuillardinfo.shtm, I dragged the paint and established a broken quality to the face, and with that, the concept of school lunch arrived.

I liked the pointed look but not the negative symbolism of the dunce cap. That led me to change the cap to a pencil and the other elements followed, providing the picture with compositional devices that establish a classic pyramid. From there, I worked the foreground and background, keeping parts of the picture elusive and on the move.

Hope you enjoy the painting!

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