Sisters Lunch
by Richard W Linford
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11.000 x 8.500 inches
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Title
Sisters Lunch
Artist
Richard W Linford
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
Sisters Lunch, Watercolor. It is Saturday evening, September 14, 2019, and I have decided to take the time to comment about each of now my more than 800 paintings, many of which are found her on Fineartamerica, if not for posterity, for my own purposes. I want to set down why I painted each particular subject together with my exploration of various artistic techniques for I have set my sights on improving my capabilities as an artist. I want to provide - using an Art World term - a "personal" provenance for each of my paintings and sketches. Sisters' Lunch began as watercolor on paper with four reddish, pinkish round facial ovals and freehand evolved into its current form; and I finished it with a number of touches of acrylic gold -- the pictures on the wall, the plates, the glasses, the food, the lenses on the dark glasses, the gold necklaces. I have a penchant for gold. My mother, Donna Linford, was a beautiful, cultured woman. She was self taught. She had books about artists in the home. She loved gold. When I was a boy she took me to visit my Aunt Ad in Redwood City. Aunt Ad was an artist and she filled indeed decorated her small two bedroom house with her paintings. There were paintings on the ceilings, paintings on the walls, paintings in the bathroom. Many of her paintings were abstracts. Sisters' lunch was painted in August 2019. Pictured are my wife on the right and her three sisters Sheila, Eileen, and Rochelle. These four women meet weekly on Tuesday at the Sizzler for lunch. My painting is a spoof. It is freehand with some abandon on my part. Originally the bodies were the same color as the faces leaving one with the impression that the four women were naked, which was not my intent, so when I showed it to Marilynne, and she laughed and called my attention to same, I added the green, orange, yellow, red tops to make sure the four ladies remained modest. I suspect this little painting will become a classic or sorts - at least in the family. I have in mind a large painting again titled Sister's Lunch - using this watercolor sketch as a springboard to the larger version - with details about Sizzler restaurant where the women most often meet for lunch - using this painting - together with a photo of the four women including my mother-in-law, recently deceased, died in her nineties and was still going strong up to several months if not weeks before her death, adding in the face of another sister who died young of Addison's. As an aside, I have been taking an art class per night using available YouTube videos. Tonight I watched one on Van Gogh. This little painting of Sisters' Lunch is included in a "Family" gallery. I can't say enough good about Fineartamerica. The price obviously is reasonable. The various bells and whistles are valued. I am sure I don't take full advantage of it, but then what else is new given our short time in mortality. I just clicked over 79 and who knows how many more years are available. Well, enough about Sisters' Lunch. These four women are remarkable people. Each has raised a number of children. Each has suffered in one way or another. They are a tough, honored quartet. Don't even think about crossing any one or two or three or four of them. A close friend of mine - in what at first might appear to be good humor but in fact is the gospel truth - refers to his wife as "She who must be obeyed." Each of these great, moral, smart, beautiful, sizzling ladies is best described as "She who must be obeyed." The portraits obviously do not do them justice but they do capture their in control of the world at Sizzler and around them look. You are within your rights to ask if a copy is worth the asking price. I've been watching art prices with interest and I suspect the asking price is low. The original is signed on the back RWL, and Ricardo, and Richard William Linford, 2019. I have no justification as to why I signed it with three signatures, but I did. I will provide a signed letter of provenance with a copy. You probably know that provenance means the place of origin or earliest known history of something - the beginning of something's existence - the record, the chronology, the custody, the location, of ownership of a work of art or antique used as a guide to authenticity or quality. Plural is provenances.
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September 8th, 2019
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