Ambiguation No.3
Oil on Gessoed Paper
I nude oil sketch from the Ambiguation Series. Amanda Scott is an artists model and a fellow painter, I met her in Portland. This is from a Saturday session at Hipbone Studio. I painted this in my transition from pastel nudes to oil. I struggled mightily with oils, trying to use the same technique as the pastels and failed miserably.
My breakthrough happened by limiting my palette to five colors. Amanda hates this series. “It’s the color of shit and blood,” she says.
Collection of Peggy Townsend
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Written by Daniel Liam Gill
Daniel Liam Gill is a painter who lives in Portland, Oregon.
He is currently working on the series' Objectify and Seeds.
Daniel was born in American Falls, Idaho in the fall of 1961. He spent his formative years in the American South working as an illustrator, graphic designer and art director. Daniel taught illustration design at Portfolio Center in Atlanta, Georgia and illustration at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. He co-founded The Illustrators’ Jam with PNCA and Raw Visceralia, an art experience.
Daniel studied pastels with Lee Bomhoff , an Atlanta artist.
He honed his figure drawing skills in Portland, Oregon, creating hundreds pastel drawings over several years. Daniel graduated to oils in 2006 and started the series, Connective Tissue in 2007.
