Pantomimist by Nicholas Robertson
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
30.5 cm x 25.5 cm
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I first drew this in1984 and did not follow through with a painting.?In 2024 I came across the drawing again while looking for something else and decided I would now paint it 41 years later! Its an elegant portly clown, I must have taken my children to a pantomime show or a traveling circus. I have a faded memory of the figure, but not the occasion. Such is the vagaries of a painting’s stimulation. The work consists of a Rowney Cryla acrylic base coat of burnt orange, then opaque pigments are used to lay down the undercoating of some of the subject matter. Subsequently using acrylic paint in washes which has been thinned using diluted Liquidex airbrush medium. This layering of the work allows for subtle tonal attributes that give depth and intensity. The overall result is an acrylic painting with a degree of luminosity rather than the usual flat acrylic finish.

NICHOLAS ROBERTSON
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire United Kingdom
I suspect like most figurative artists I find drawing and painting the human form wholly embedded with human behaviour. The desire to secure more than a representation of a persons movement, the spilling of light over contours or the various other ph... More
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Artwork Details
Type: Painting
Medium: Acrylic
Support Type: Canvas
Artwork Height: 30.5 cm
Artwork Width: 25.5 cm
Depth: 0.5 cm
Weight: 0.5 kg
Ready to Hang: Yes
Framed: No
Year Created: 2024
Signed: Yes
Signature Location: bottom left
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