Painting in Series – Complementary Images
As a painter, I love having a cache of previous artworks I can “draw” from in creating new art. I suppose that’s the power of painting in “series” where a grouping of art pieces is composed and the respective pieces complement and accentuate one another. I’ll post some examples in this and other articles of what I’d consider small “series” of works including as few as a couple or as many as several pieces which were inspired by or were designed to go with one another.
The following two paintings depict essentially the same setting. The girl in the first painting was painted relatively rapidly, on site, in a park, and not “touched up” at all. The effect has a quality all its own insomuch that the now-owner of this piece demanded that I not return to it, and “leave it alone”! I agreed with her opinion and was happy to leave in in it’s first and spontaneous state of creation.
The second piece, Summer Wind, was painted as a commission whose subject was left up to me. I suggested doing a piece based on the recently painted Mirae (above), and my client was happy with the idea. The subject is essentially the same, though the pose has been altered, and the painting style also, to a considerable degree. Yet the overall feeling of idyllic reflection remains, I think, pretty much comparable between the two.
I saw that painting. I could have swiped it. I COULD HAVE!! 😉
Hahahahahaha! Thank you for being nice to the painting. I’m sure someone else thanks you as well!