Glenda Savard – Calgary Artist

Faces, No. 10

I just love the mustard and red colours together. I think these are my favorite colours in the world…yummy.

Faces, No. 9

I have been listening to the news lately and my heart goes out to all those families affected by the conflicts in the Middle East, and the men and women who have to go out there, I can’t even imagine what that must be like.

This painting is larger than the studies I have been doing, it wasn’t something I consciously chose, it just turned out that way. Here I chose to paint this image of a soldier on a red background, to bring another dimension to the image, and bring out the depth of colour.

Faces, No.7

A happy man, with his glowing hair.

Faces, No. 6

Here is the first of my black backgrounds, and as you can see I’ve not completely finished the painting. You can still see the drawing marks by his ear. I photographed it out of curosity to see how it would look as the eyes were so deep set and dark. I can assure you that they look much better when viewing the actual painting.

Faces, No.5

She looks like she could be anyone’s grandmother. We all have memories of being fed by a woman like this. I wanted this to be very loose, like Michele Torrez, the artist who so inspires me to grab a big brush and block it in, just paying attention to the shapes and brush strokes.

Faces, No. 4

Here I used an orange ground colour and used it as part of the young woman’s skin colour.

Face No. 3

I love these warm up excercises, their purpose is to get my brain going, putting colour down and go with the flow. It’s like a great coffee in the morning.

Faces, No.2

I like the happy accidents that come about when I leave spaces for the ground colour to show through.

Faces, No. 1

My purpose is simply to practice painting – to explore human faces, for example – the skin, bone structure, all walks of life. I’m most interested in experimenting with different ground colours and how that will direct the final result. So I’ve been experimenting with that. Here it is cadmium red, however I still love my black backgrounds and no doubt they will come shining through many times. So here is the first one.