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American Gothic #8

American Gothic #8

3" x 3" x 0.5"

Regular price $30.00 USD
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3" x 3" x 0.5"

Acrylic on Canvas with Easel

With this interpretation of Grant Wood’s classic work, I took the postcard version of my image and made a direct transfer. I cropped the image to fit the size of the mini canvas, keeping the dimensions and proportions the same as the postcard. I scaled back the detail found in my larger work to simplify and make it easier to render at this scale. The basic painting of this piece came together quite easily. The challenging part was the detail work, done with acrylic paint pens, straight edges, and circle templates. There was a lot of back and forth: putting down a line, then cleaning it up… over, and over, and over. Still, the goal of making this American Gothic piece more gothic, came to fruition.

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