inspiration: constance b. hartle

Constance's work (alongside Barbara Craver) is currently exhibiting at the Canvas for the month of April. I had great admiration for her exhibit of landscapes in Nov. 2007 (also at the Canvas), but this time around she is exhibiting more portraiture, which I find infinitely more captivating. Part of what I love so much about Constance's work are the red undertones that she often lets appear through her layers, particularly as a lining between objects in her paintings. In this exhibit, she primarily paints with acrylics, which can be very hard to do when blending layers and she does it masterfully. In her Nov. 2007 exhibit it was almost impossible to tell the oil paintings from the acrylic paintings. http://www.constancebhartle.typepad.com/