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Dimensions
Image:
8.00" x 6.50"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
13.50" x 12.00"
Alex Reading #1 Framed Print
by Carol Berning
Product Details
Alex Reading #1 framed print by Carol Berning. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
When I photographed this little boy in preparation for this painting, he wore a green t-shirt over his black turtleneck shirt. I asked him if green... more
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Artist's Description
When I photographed this little boy in preparation for this painting, he wore a green t-shirt over his black turtleneck shirt. I asked him if green was his favorite color. He replied that it was, but that purple was his second favorite color. In my first incarnation of this painting, I tried to be true to the green. However, it didn't work. Additionally, I didn't have his skin tones correct. And the more I fiddled with the skin tones, the more the drawing went askew. So I trashed the first canvas and started anew. This is the second attempt with oils.
About Carol Berning
As a toddler, I sat underneath quilts in large frames as my mother, grandmothers, and their friends created delicate, feathery patterns with their stitches. Gazing up at the “stained glass” fabric, I watched them push their tiny quilting needles through the layers of muslin, cottony batting, and colorful squares. That is my earliest memory of beautiful art. Following their lead, I grew up sewing and quilting, and many years later, I began to explore drawing and painting, studying under the guidance of Susan Truex. I enjoy painting images of people and things that are important to me, whether it’s a still life of eggs or rusty heaps, portraits of family and friends, or landscapes of lush fields or dark alley ways. I am fascinated by...
$68.00
Carol Berning
Thank you, Bill!
Bill Cannon
Congratulations on your sale!!!
Madalena Lobao-Tello
Featured on Female Artists - Creative Women! Congratulations! Great work, love how you have done this!!! Voted
Carol Berning replied:
Thank you, Madalena, for your comments and for featuring the painting. This is my fourth in a series of children reading.