To continue my momentum in between the time I submitted the studies and the beginning of the final piece I painted five 12” x 12” canvases.
Six different blues painted in alternating grids will make up the ground. This is how I get to blue.
The final studies have been reviewed. I will create the final piece in the composition style of #7 with the color palette of #8. (pictured below)
12 x 12 inches, acrylic and gouache on canvas, 2021
I began work on the eight studies for the final painting. You can see their progression below. We will use these studies to lock down an image for the final painting. Please let me know if there is an image that speaks to you.
Here are a couple of videos of me preparing the studies.
I’m looking at these paintings to inform the look and texture of the final piece. I will start by sketching different ways to change the composition from a portrait to a square.
I returned to the Harding Loevner careers page video and put together this new poem:
unique culture open debate entrepreneurial improve the future
contributes to success document communications make decisions
improve contribute document make collaborate be transparent
x collaboration
x collaboration
x transparency
x transparency
dog in painting studio
The stretcher bars for my 12” x 12” paintings finally arrived. I put them together ASAP. These frames will be supports for eight square paintings I will produce with the 48 x 48 inch commission. I work on more than one painting at a time. These smaller paintings will provide a space to experiment and check-in with you about what is working before I apply it to the 48” x 48” painting.
hammer and 12” stretcher bars for studies
Three paintings and one easel.
Today I organized and cleaned my brushes and made room for the new paintings in the studio.
Read MoreI cut ten canvases to stretch over 12” wooden stretcher bars for the studies I’ll be making. They look nice in the north light of my studio floor.
Read MoreA poem about Harding Loevner using the careers page video for inspiration:
unique
culture
x colab w/o consensus
x transparency
ind account
cont comm
small firm
everyone contributes to success
open debate
entrepreneurial
learn from mistakes
doc communications
make decisions
improve in the future
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