I have been working on this painting for around a week and half. The painting was inspired by a wide array of artist, Giotto, Henry Darger, and Edvard Munch to name a few. Something I really wanted to play with in this painting was representational flatness. I’m interested in flatness for a few reasons, but mostly find it interesting in how it can be used to create a world that obeys different rules then the real one, A painting world. Gesture and brush work/movement are essential to making a form seem round in a paint. If your painting a upright cylinder, for example, the trained thing to do would be make horizontal marks that seemingly bend around the form. If you do the opposite, you’ll achieve flatness. Below I have two figure I painted, not how much rounder the girls face appears then the boys arm. The Girls nose is also a nice example.
Ryan Strochinsky Art 