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| Serene Oil on canvas 11 x 14 in. Serene is an oil painting I began over a year ago and is still a work in progress. I was almost finished when this picture was taken and then I put it in the drying rack in my school's painting studio. I was very discouraged when I brought it out several weeks later to find someone or several someones had gotten paint all over it. So... in the process of repairing it, I've had to re-do almost half of it, but it turned out to be for the good, because I am happier now with the result. In the several weeks since I put it in the drying rack, I had been working on a larger scale piece and exploring the use of exaggerated color and light sources. Upon returning to Serene, I found that my painting style had changed quite a bit and the areas that had been damaged are now the stongest parts of the painting. I don't think, however, that I will be working this small-scale in the future. At a tiny eleven by fourteen inches, the brushstrokes are not as gestural as they could be because the smaller brushes are controlled with your fingers instead of your whole arm. A zoomed-in photograph of Serene's face may be found here. |
