My friend Becky has generously allowed me to use her as a model in several of my paintings. Somehow I always feel, however, like I don't capture her spirit. We set up a zoom call last week to have tea and catch up a bit. While we talked, I snapped a few screenshots and then asked if I could paint them.
Zoom Becky Suite, 2020. Each piece is oil on 6x6” panel.
Somehow, I feel like this does start to capture Becky. I’ve been trying to understand the difference — why does it feel like it’s working now, when it hasn’t before? My current theory is that Becky is a person who is always in movement and her animation is really elemental to how I see her. By doing a few of these photos and putting them together, it feels like maybe it gets at some of her mobile self.