I wanted to create a series of paintings following the earlier image I posted on March 3rd – Dancing Away the Blues. This is the second in the series. I think this one is getting to a stage I am comfortable with. There are a couple of earlier tries below. The first one had a rather cumbersome grouping. I felt the players could be grouped better. On the second I got a better grouping but found the painting too pedantic and a little heavy. I also felt I had lost the pleasing ambiguity of Dancing Away the Blues. I had started to put more and more detail in and felt I had overdone it. Even on the painting above there is some more detail, but I have been able to stem my nit picking. There will be a few more changes when I do the final edition, but I think I’m getting there.
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I really like the way this floats through different band members, giving a feeling of music flowing through a painting. Really nice composition and tone. Thanks for sharing it!
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Thanks. I think the flow of colours could be improved by pushing more yellows/oranges into the bottom left and a few more blues near the top right, but its coming.
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I love the movement, the feel of it and the colors. Very interpretive (spelling?)
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Thanks, I was deliberately trying to get a bit more colourful with these pieces – normally I’m greying everything.
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