Eileen Kennedy's meticulous style emulates the Flemish masters including Van Eyck, Van der Weyden, and Bosch. At the same time, her work explores contemporary life and the social milieu we have created. She underpaints in grisaille or verdacchio to which she then applies layers of scumbles and glazes such as in the Portrait of the Late Helen Djamspun (found under "Domestic Bliss") and the Meditation on the Stations of the Cross. In other works, such as the intricate Behind the Screen series, she paints directly in color which she then transforms with successive layers of color glaze. She begins painting only after executing a series of informal sketches (head, hand, perspective,and layout studies), ending with a highly finished drawing in charcoal, conte, or colored pencil the same scale as the painting. In her more recent works in egg tempera, she follows much the same process, although these works are generally smaller in scale due to the more time consuming application of paint dictated by this medium.

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Behind the Screen	Domestic Bliss	Memento Mori (and other Still Lives)	A Meditation on the Stations of the Cross
Works in Egg Tempera