Portrait of an Artist - Jim Meaders 1984
by O Yemi Tubi
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Title
Portrait of an Artist - Jim Meaders 1984
Artist
O Yemi Tubi
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Influenced by the painting of an old Italian Artist – Giuseppe Arcimboldo (An Artist that painted fruits and vegetables in creative people’s portraits), I made this painting “Portrait of an Artist” as a tribute to one of my art teachers, Jim Meaders. After 30 years, I thought of this teacher and all the help he rendered to me while he was studying in America. I picked up my photo album and looking through the pages, saw Jim Meaders' picture in an academic gown that I took during graduation in 1984. I imagined Jim’s bushy hair as a brush head, and I decided to re-do the painting that I did as class work in 1984 in honour of Jim Meaders. Jim Meaders is a Painter and as in many of my recent paintings, I like to use my paintings to make a statement. I am using this painting to tell the viewer the occupation of my subject. To start the painting I sketched my subject profile first on tracing paper and then arranged the artist’s tools to form the shape of the profile. I carefully assembled brushes of different sizes and shapes to make up the bushy hair of the head and the face, a paint tube and a pencil that overlapped together to make various anatomical shapes of an Artist’s face. Brushes for the hairy parts of the face, a pencil for the nose and a paint tube for the mouth of the portrait.
After the concept was formed on paper, I started to use the image on paper to guide me to do a final sketch on canvas. my choice of medium for this work is oil on canvas and I started applying paints to the image already sketched on the canvas. I kept making changes as the painting progressed to afford any gap as I exchanged round brushes for flat brushes in the area of the mouth and pointed brushes for the area of the moustache of the painting.
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