"Girl Braiding Hair"
16"x 20"
by Robin Dodge
$480

Photograph by Mel Shockner








My inspiration was the way Pierre-Auguste Renior focused on people in intimate and candid compositions.
My design strategy was to paint such an intimate moment of a girl braiding her hair.
My work process was to bath the girl in a warm light, with loose brush strokes, to emulate the style of impressionism.

"Dressing Room"
20"x 16" oil
by Robin Dodge
$480

Photograph by Mel Shockner




My inspiration was the early work of Degas which bared the distinct influence of the dutch  painters. As he matured as a painter he found bolder brush strokes and the use of vivid colors, he blurred the line between portraiture and genre painting.
My design strategy was to create a snapshot of a single moment, a fly on the wall experience.
My work process was to companion up the dark of the old with the bold brush stroke and emerging brilliance of vivid color.

"Apples"

pastels on sandpaper
by Robin Dodge
$648

Photograph by Mel Shockner



My inspiration was the masterful pastel work of Edgar Degas. While studying Degas, I spent many hours just looking at his work. His classical training and accomplished skills shine in his work and I am encouraged to continue my  discipline of building and improving my skill set. I feel pleased with the influences that came through on this pastel painting.
My design strategy was to create a still life that in a small way conveyed the influence of Degas using the grey hound figurine's delicate form to emulate the ballet dancers and the horses.
My Work process was pastels on sandpaper.

"The Road"
16"x 20"                            
oil painting by Robin Dodge
$480

Photograph by Mel Shockner

My inspiration was the road on which we all find ourselves traveling, a strange combination of predestination and the power of choices that balance ever precariously on the horizon.

My design strategy was to use color to express the effect of sunlight on the landscape.

My work process was to create a painting using the practices and techniques of Claude Monet. 

"The Sugar Factory"
oil painting by Robin Dodge
sold

Photograph by Mel Shockner




My inspiration was the spontaneous response to  the sunlight and color one spring morning in my back yard looking out at the sugar factory. The same response to the outdoors and the science of light and color that was documented by Pissaro and other impressionist painters in the 1800s.
My design strategy was to create a plein air painting using the technique of the impressionist Camille Pissaro.
My work process was to attempt to portray an overall visual effect instead of details using short broken brush strokes of mixed and unmixed color to achieve an effect of intense color vibration.

"Self portrait in Mink Hat"
20"x 16"
oil painting by Robin Dodge
$480

Photograph by Mel Shockner





My inspiration was the way in which Manet's portrait subjects look out from the canvas engaging the viewer with the unspoken language found in eye contact.
My design strategy was to create a self portrait that had an undercurrent of influence which I expressed through the pose and the look out.
My work process was to use looser brush strokes and a simple color pallet.