A béret branché is a trendy beret. But actually, this face reminds me of Damian Lewis playing Sergeant Brody in Homeland. More than a little frightening, depending on which angle you look at it. It’s unfinished.
Archive for May, 2012
Béret Branché
Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags Beret, Damian Lewis, Digital Art, Homeland, Sergeant Brody, Trendy Beret on May 28, 2012 by JennyPortrait of my father
Posted in Painting Diary with tags Bath, Jennifer Caron Hall, portrait in oils, portrait of my father, portrait of Sir Peter Hall, Sir Peter Hall, Theatre Royal Bath on May 26, 2012 by JennyLast night we were at a gala to celebrate 48 plays directed by my father Sir Peter Hall for the Theatre Royal Bath over the years. The celebrations included the unveiling of a portrait of him which they commissioned me to paint, as a surprise – EG he did not sit for it, and got quite a shock when he pulled the curtain cord to unveil it. So now it hangs in the foyer of this gem of a theatre, alongside some of the greatest British theatre paintings from the Somerset Maugham collection. It’s amazing.
Afterwards we went for a drink in the garden at the Royal Crescent Hotel. What an astonishingly beautiful city Bath is.
I painted in some clues: he’s holding his book about verse speaking; ’Shakespeare’s Advice to the Players’ and behind him is a distinctive grey concrete wall, which students of Denys Lasdun’s architecture may recognise.
portrait of Sir Peter Hall hanging in the foyer
Official photos have now come through – here’s a rather better shot taken by Anna Cardy (added May 31)
Orange sketch
Posted in Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags Digital sketch on May 24, 2012 by JennyIt’s just a doodle in a bright colour
Anglaise
Posted in Digital Art, Art Prints, Painting Diary with tags digital painting, Jenny Caron Hall, Englishwoman, sycamore leaves on May 17, 2012 by JennyA painting done on my computer, using a new pen and ink ‘tool’ that I haven’t tried before. And lots of colour, and leaves, of course…
Englishwoman
Centre Parting
Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags centre parting, charcoal sketch, digital painting, sketchbook on May 13, 2012 by JennyI took charcoal and sketchbook into the exhibition today, when it was my turn to stand guard for an hour, and sketched visitors very fast as they walked around. Back home I painted over the top on the computer.
hair like a curtain
Atelier Mash-up
Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags Atelier School, atelier sketch, mash-up, patchwork shawl, plaster bust on May 7, 2012 by JennyThis is an academic charcoal sketch of a plaster bust, which I did at my Atelier drawing school last October, and then used as the basis for Country Girl (see archive). I’ve mashed it up here – covered it with a digital ‘shawl’ of lovely printed fabrics. I like the way you can see the edges of each ‘patch’ of fabric.
covered in a patchwork shawl
She’s in Make-Up
Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art with tags Art, self-portrait, Jenny Caron Hall, Polaroid, make-up, Feminism, representation of women, photo shoot on May 6, 2012 by JennyThis is about the representation of women – in the glamour, beauty, film and fashion industries. On a film set, someone might ask ‘have you seen so-and-so? and the reply might be, ‘she’s in make-up’, EG having hair and face done in the make-up department.
It’s a self portrait about how desperate a person might feel inside – sitting in the make-up truck on a shoot, with a team of brilliant people working around their face to produce a polished exterior. It’s ‘emotion recollected in tranquility’ as I haven’t sat in such a place for many years. I took this polaroid last year, scanned it and painted over with computer software.
She’s in Make Up
White Sky Tree
Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art with tags digital, landscape, silence, tree, watercolour, white sky on May 6, 2012 by JennySky full of water, white everywhere, no shadows no sun: it’s a tree beneath a white sky. A digital painting made with watery brushes.
Like a digital watercolour: Landscape and Silence
Self-Portrait 2 years back
Posted in Digital Art, Art Prints, Painting Diary with tags Jennifer Caron Hall, self-portrait, Jenny Caron Hall, Digital Self Portrait, back in the day, hairdo, make-up on May 5, 2012 by JennyThis is a self portrait from May 2010 – which I’m reviving. Mostly because it makes me laugh, and I feel like cheering myself up. It’s an old photo from back in the day, with discrete digital additions to the hairdo and make-up.
Jenny Caron Hall, Self Portrait
