Painting
NARRATIVE PAINTINGS, FIGURE AND STILL LIFE STUDIES
Since August 2017 I've started migrating personal work and painting to my Instagram account, but will keep older work here.
PASSAGES
The first series below are from my 2011 MFA Thesis Show. At 30 inches by 40 inches, these are large canvases for me. Working at this size presents challenges in design and execution that are very different from working with 3 inch by 5 inch storyboard panels.The size forced me to simplify composition. I desaturated the color palette to give the color a narrative role through evoking a sense of history.
Compositionally, the paintings are about constructing volumetric space within each image, and creating relationships between the sequential images.The narrative follows my grandparents' journey from El Salvador to the United States.
The Big Step, acrylic on
canvas, 40 inches by 30 inches.
Flooded, Istmo de Tehuantepec, acrylic
on canvas, 40 inches by 30 inches.
Washed Ashore, Salina Cruz, oil
on canvas, 30 inches by 40 inches
Executive Order 9346,
acrylic on canvas, 40 inches by 30 inches.
Stray Dogs, oil on canvas, 30 inches
by 40 inches.
After School, oil on canvas,
30 inches by 40 inches.
Last Walk, acrylic on canvas, 40 inches by 30 inches.
Preparatory Studies
Travel Town, Griffith park.
Travel Town, Griffith Park.
ART PROCESS - Ongoing study of color value and form. After stripping color out of my work, I'm trying to learn how to push the color composition while keeping a strong sense of form.
Same tools as above but with a more saturated palette of Ultramarine Blue, Quinacridone Red, Hansa Yellow and White
These
are three separate quick color sketches of the same Pose. The model sat
for three hours. Each hour the lighting conditions were changed by
placing a Viridian, Magenta or Yellow Gel over the main light source.
STILL LIFE COLOR STUDIES
Warm yellow light source on red/orange still life.
All images copyright Danelle Davenport.
Orange Set Up with contrasting Cool Blues/Greens
Violet Set Up with constrasting Oranges (and some Greens)
Below, making friends with the color red.
Cool blue light source on red /orange still life.