"Father and Son" is the third in my series of parent-and-child paintings. The first two paintings are "A Moment with Dad" and "Mom and Babe." This painting features a baby boy, instead of a baby girl, giving it a little bit of distinction from the other two.
All three paintings were made in the first quarter of this year (January to March 2013), and were painted using acrylic paints on canvas. I finished this one on the 31st of March.
The background of this painting depicts a countryside scene, which is typical of rural villages in the Philippines. There is a nipa hut in the background, as well as trees, mountains, shrubs, grasses, and tropical flowers. The father is shown carrying his son in his arms, apparently standing on an elevated portion of the land. A narrow pathway is shown on the side slope, leading down from where they are, towards the level ground below, where the nipa hut stands.
I just recently posted three new paintings in my two websites (http://cyril-maza.artistwebsites.com and http://cyril-maza.fineartamerica.com). They are my first three paintings in 2013.
One of them is "The Artist," which is my first painting in 2013.
The other two are entitled "Mom and Babe" and "A Moment with Dad." Both paintings feature a parent and a child, with "A Moment with Dad" portraying a father, and "Mom and Babe" portraying a mother. I completed the former on the 20th of January and the latter on the 8th of February. I used acrylic paints on a 22" X 28" stretched canvas for each painting.
Just like what I did when I painted "The Artist", I had used photos of real people to start with when I painted the two pieces. I found those beautiful black-and-white photos from the Facebook photo albums of my younger brother and my sister-in-law. Of course, those pictures were black-and-white, so I had to come up with my own colors.
I chose a black background for the "A Moment with Dad" painting, and a landscape scene with a blue sky, white-bluish/pinkish clouds, and a mixture of red, green and yellow plants for the "Mom and Babe."
I have added halos around the heads of the father and the child in the "A Moment with Dad" painting to make the figures stand out in the dark background. The lighter yellowish color around their heads made their dark, black hairs more distinct, separating the dark colored hairs from the dark background.
