spence munsinger
artist & painter
This was inspired by a portrait Picasso did of Marie-Therese Walter in 1937. I wanted the crookedness of the room, the arms of the chair (expanded into a couch), the stripes in the dress and the blue skin. From that I wanted to represent someone different from Marie-Therese, and from that departure solve some of [...]
This started from a Picasso painting from 1939 titled “Woman Reading.” The colors in this followed Picasso’s, then diverged – the biggest revelation from painting this was the scratching of lines into the paint. Sketching into paint, drawing lines into paint. That was/is amazing. One of the things I see most in Picasso’s wide range [...]
I painted some early paintings in watercolors. Pencil sketch on textured watercolor paper, strathmore heavy duty, fairly small stuff – perhaps 8-1/2″ x 11 or 11″ x 17″. I would vidualize the painting, sketch it out, color and line it, at a single stretch of time. The portfolio that held these was water-damaged in a [...]
