ELISE IPPOLITO
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HEIRLOOM FINE ART
PAINTINGS
I leave a lot of detail in. I find details to be gorgeous, delicious. Each face is a novel, an opera, creating meaning out of the chaos of a zillion tiny dots of color.
Life is to a painting as street noise is to song: the artist captures the underlying theme, collages the best into a unifying composition; melody results.
When I paint, I leave out just enough... to filter the noise from the beauty, to clarify each person's unique life story, to shake off the dust of the quotidian humdrum of the world.
A photograph, snapped in a second, catches every single detail, an over-abundance of information. What makes a portrait painting beautiful is what the artist chooses to leave out of the picture. That and the effort that goes into every stroke and smudge.
Oil Paintings. Pastel Paintings. Photographs.
What's the Difference?
Oil paintings are not all alike, in and of themselves. A more traditional oil portrait will display a brushwork that's subtly perceptible in the texture, along with a high gloss or sheen overall. Modern styles of painting often prefer a matte finish, and brush strokes may add even more texture. For more on techniques, go here.
Pastel paintings stand out because (being made of a chalk-like pure pigment) they must be framed under glass. Pastels are naturally matte, and I prefer to use museum glass to reduce any glare. These works are not on canvas at all, but on paper backed onto board.
Artists may price pastels lower than oil paintings, because historically, protective fixative sprays were not available to ensure the work would endure, and pastels tended to be no more than sketches. My pastels are of equal quality and permanence as my oils.
