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An Invitation to Gaze

A virtual exhibition of paintings by Hannah Barnes
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This blog is a visual, on-line record of my art work and my personal research (guided simply by what I like) into art history and contemporary art.

Most of my paintings on display here are for sale. If you are interested in purchasing a work,
please e-mail me at hannahsjb@live.co.uk

Many of my works posted here are Digital Finger Paintings. For this reason the images have been watermarked. Please, no unauthorized reproductions: If you would like to use any of the images of my works that you see here (or elsewhere) please contact me, I am always happy to help if I can.

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Wednesday 28 September 2011

The Grace of an Odalisque






















(Above) The Grace of an Odalisque
September 2011
15cm x 17cm
Mixed media (Windsor & Newton Indian inks, Daler Rowney FW acrylic inks, Faber Castel Albrecht Durer water colour crayons, Caran d'Ache Neocolour II water-soluble wax crayons) on 100% cotton rag, acid-free paper (200g).

Saturday 10 September 2011

Marie-Therese






















(Above) Marie-Therese
13cm x 16cm
September 2011
Mixed media (Windsor and Newton Indian ink, Daler Rowney FW acrylic ink, Derwent watercolour crayons, Caran d'Ache Neocolour II water-soluble wax crayons) on 100% cotton rag, acid-free paper (200g)

Monday 5 September 2011

The Girl with the Pony Tail






















(Above) The Girl with the Pony Tail
14.5cm x 18cm
September 2011

This painting has grown from studies after Picasso's paintings of Sylvette David or "the girl with the pony tail". Sylvette David now uses the name Lydia Corbett and lives and works as an artist in Devon. Her paintings can be viewed online at:


Sunday 4 September 2011

The Model Wore Red Lipstick






















(Above) The Model Wore Red Lipstick
14.5cm x 18cm
September 2011

A painting in mixed media on paper developed from one of my liferoom sketches (see the previous post).



Friday 2 September 2011

From the Sketchbook






















The posts have been rather infrequent of late. I haven't been getting a lot of painting done - en raison d'une crise de confiance. Nothing that can't be remedied (hopefully) by some work in the life drawing studio. Here then are a few pages from my sketchbook.