This one's taking longer than anticipated as I'm trying very hard to push myself forward. Right now I'm attempting to unite the right side with the left side while maintaining a sense that the right side is falling apart as a 'pictorial scene.' I'd like more abstract elements to answer to the left side. More intuition. More randomness. More perception than concrete understanding. I want it to fall apart into shapes that I comprehend yet can't place. An aberration of the truth. Why is this taking so long? A painter's dilemma I guess. The usual struggle.
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My suggestion, though unsolicited, is to either eliminate the left side completely (the right is dynamic and suggestive/interpretive) or to "destroy" it, to not hold onto the defined child who remains a static reminder of the tendency to tell rather than to show. From a purely technical/painterly standpoint you could scribble over the figure and/or let the surrounding landscape or even the bird morph over and around her until she nearly vanishes.
Hi Scott,
Yes, I thought of that as well. There are many possibilities. I'm not stuck however- it's all part of the process. It will tell me what it needs as I continue to work on and alter it. I do wish I had more say in the direction it goes in ;-). Thanks for your input.
I love the little Girl and the ghost figures!
Thank you so much Terry!
Your finished piece came out beautifully. You have great strength, courage and pure love for expression.
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