portrait painting Archives - Elise Dodeles Art

Catching up

Recently someone I consider a wonderful person died. As I age I keep receiving these alerts that life is brief. So as the saying goes, I return to art, which lasts far longer. This past weekend, I attended a walk at Aquetong Spring Park in New Hope, PA given by the Philadelphia Mycology Club. The person leading the walk struck me because her features seemed straight out of an early Lucian Freud painting. I also completed the portrait of my puggle Sammie, which I will be giving to her amazing Veterinarian Dr. Jessica and the staff at Lambertville Animal Hospital.

A Day’s Work

I am happy with the beautiful face of this figure. It has the perfect ratio of warm to cool: thoughts of Velazquez. The middle figure brings the painting together. The pose, the values and the colors all harmonize with the overall composition. I envision the figure on the right with Rubensian flesh tones. The tones will contrast nicely with the other two figures’ flesh colors. Additionally, I am healing well from Takotsubo. It usually takes a month and I am near that mark. And, my Mets won a game yesterday. Good work all around.

Portrait of Kristen Moldovan

This portrait of Moldovan, a baseball player from Long Island, never got it’s due, so I am posting it now

Oil on linen, 18 x 24 inches, 2021 (painted with the generous support of The Russell J. Efros Foundation’s Sprout Grant)

Evolution of a Portrait

First stage with blue ground and outlines in raw and burnt umbers

More detailed lights, darks and middle tones applied

Beard and more details added; tones blended to more realistically express features

Almost completed: shirt and background elements added

Portrait of Mo’ne Davis, almost completed

Women Play Baseball

Funded by the Russell J Efros Foundation’s Sprout grant. This is a portrait of Kristen Moldovan, who pitched for the Massapequa, NY team in the Junior Little League World Series in 2013.

Pete Alonso

This is a portrait I just completed for the #dollars4dingers fundraiser that the Podcast A Pod of Their Own does each year.

Great Gift

I saw Summer Clearance and other performers at Martine’s this past weekend. While there, I got to give Summer this portrait I painted of him in 2013 from a photo taken at the New Hope Gay Pride Parade that year. The appreciative email Domenick/Summer sent me will be printed out and put up in my studio to inspire me to keep going.