Paintings of Sir Paul McCartney

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Yellow Linda w/Piano

A couple of people who have looked at my book singled this one out, a couple of women who said that is the picture they
would like, and Im not sure why but I like it. This is Linda relax-ing in my room at home where I have the piano, and she is sitting on the couch and she was in a Yellow, So I made everything yellow. The piano isn't really yellow, but I just thought it would be nice. Her hair was yellow, her blouse was yellow, so I made them all yellow. So it became a very yellow picture. It didn't need brown or any of their real colors. This is interesting because this little stool here, this little piece here, was Rene

Magritte's. That was in a sale of the contents of his studio, and in this little thing here are his charcoals and his drawing pens and pencilsexactly as he left them, including his spectacles. Maybe it was the atmosphere they liked. It's verypeaceful.

I enjoyed making it. It is a very typicalpose of Linda's: the legs — this foot is slightly strange, but I like it — this shoe.
"Paul McCartney."

Lovely Lady Linda

"One thing I have learned, is that the more precise you try to be about a thing, somehow the less you achieve. You can go toowooden, you can lose the spirit of the thing. Just for instance the eye on that boxer, to just put three lines like that will actually do a better job than really figuratively working that in and doing the eyelashes and putting a little eyeball in. Somehow they seem to awaken echoes, those little half-glimpsed moments."Pul McCartney.Cartney in interview about 'Big mountain face."