Q: What’s on the easel today?
Preliminary sketch
A: I’m working on a preliminary charcoal sketch for my next pastel painting.
Comments are welcome!
Posted on August 20, 2016, in 2016, Creative Process, Working methods and tagged easel, pastel painting, preliminary sketch. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
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It is interesting to view the isolated figures. The man is prominent suggesting someone sinister, drawing the hypnotized character forward. If this is your intention, I can see why the innocent members–the baby and insects–may have been superfluous, but I like them very much in the original print.
Thank you for commenting, Cynthia. I made a large painting from this photo and called it “The Ancestors.” It includes all of the figures. We’ll see what happens in the scaled down version.