Yeager Art Blog

This is a painting I completed about three weeks ago. It was inspired by a photo I saw of a sculpture by Jules Dalou, a prominent French sculptor in the late 1800s. It was a full figure and titled "Peasant Woman Nursing an Infant." A good friend modeled for the painting with her 8-month old baby. I've posted this painting on Facebook several weeks ago, but am posting it here to see if I've got the hang on how to do it.

This is where I'll be painting for a week, in a workshop sponsored by the Maine College of Art. Chateau de La Napoule is magical, enhanced by the sculptures of Henry Clews and the acres of gardens planned by his wife Marie. They bought it in the early 1900s and spent the next 40 years restoring it. http://www.chateau-lanapoule.com/en/ I've been here before, about 15 years ago, in a workshop sponsored by the Pennsylvania Academy if Fine Art