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Bedcover, 2009, oil on canvas, 9 x 9 inches
©Narangkar Glover

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Bata Chappals

These shoes, or chappals, painted from memory, were the bathroom sandals issued to us at my childhood school. My paintings, since I've beginning to work with memories, have been primarily greyscale. It's less out of the need to create nostalgia, but more out of the desire to inform mood through the values. In the initial stage of this painting (below), I simply used mars black and flake white ... >>



For the final painting (below) I've mixed my own black, and focused alot on the forms and edges. I'm pleased with the difference between using out-of-the-tube black versus my own mixture (of alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue and sap green). There's really no rules for black - if you get a good black that you like, use it!


Bata Chappals, 2009, 8" x 8", oil on canvas
©Narangkar Glover