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Tronies are one of my favorite stories. I love to tell stories! When I was a young art student, maybe 6 and at the library to pick up the summer reading list I would head over to the books I had found with pictures of paintings. Rembrandt's work was always available. Faces, faces and more faces. If you have ever seen a showing of Rembrandt's work his face paintings are often little tiny beautifully framed ink line and wash drawings. I loved them, I studied them for hours. Most of them are men. What I learned is interesting art history. Paintings once finsihed were shown and appreciated by the community, in a way, becoming a part of that areas history, character. The important towns people wanted to be depicted in the paintings. They paid the artist to put their face in the image. Christ was even given the face of a Mayor or a prominent leader that paid the artist. Each painting was first painted in gestures much like I teach my students to first plan the painting in watercolor. Then each face was painted of the person with the largest purse.  Interested individuals vying for that position in the painting, would sit for their face to be painted with the appropriate expression. Most major paintings, completed in oil paint had more faces than interested purses because who would pay to be in a supporting crowd? So many of the faces were Patrons. The supporting faces, the faces in the crowd, the ones that were not paid, became Tronies, Patrons without the pa or pay. When I first started painting these faces I purchased www.tronies.com. Now I am in the process of building personalities for each face.

Each of my faces are Tronies created without pay, I have no objection to each of them becoming Pay Tronies!

 Let me know if you want to participate.

Tronies are a part of the painting gestures that I do daily and can be taken into print in any form that we see fit. They can be  Fabric, a print from Fine Art America, or perhaps Note card stationary.

 I'm happy to accommodate!

I don't often sell my original gesture paintings  because these are the paintings that are most attractive for licensing.

Love those royalty checks!

Products I use Pentel Aquash Watercolor brushes,

Lukas Watercolor Paint and Fluid Watercolor Paper

Happy Painting and if you would like a bit of instruction please check out my Art Workshops, they are always - Come When you Can and Pay when you Come & 1st class is always free! or find me on Meet Up

Painting watercolor gestures are fun and I find there is no end to the discoveries. My students hear me talk about painting gestures and I teach them all how to do gestures to loosen up when they first get set up to paint.

The next few blogs I want to dedicate to my gesture paintings. I hope you enjoy each one of them.

 Let me know if you see anything that you particularly like, maybe I should take it into print in some form.

Fabric, a print from Fine Art America, or perhaps Note card stationary. I'm happy to accommodate!

I don't often sell my original gesture paintings  because these are the paintings that are most attractive for licensing.

Love those royalty checks!

Products I use Pentel Aquash Watercolor brushes,
Lukas Watercolor Paint and Fluid Watercolor Paper
Happy Painting and if you would like a bit of instruction please check out my Art Workshops, they are always - Come When you Can and Pay when you Come & 1st class is always free! or find me on Meet Up