The Pianist

Elizabeth

The performance arts make for popular subject matter with painters. Trying to create art from art is very romantic, personal, and challenging. Elizabeth is a very nuanced pianist, and I was delighted that she asked me to paint her while I was still in graduate school. We were both very happy with the results, and this painting opened my eyes to the beauty of painting white subjects. White objects reflect all the colors immediately surrounding the object making for interesting and subtle color and temperature shifts. John Singer Sargent was the master of this phenomenon, and I like to think you can see his influence in this painting.