I’ve been looking at the five backyard paintings that I’ve done so far and it occurred to me today that I think I am done one mini-series. I had them set up in the rec. room downstairs and I passed them every time I went into my studio. I noticed that I had done a 7 am, 11 am, 3 pm, 5 pm, and 7 pm between October and March—basically my backyard throughout the day in wintertime. If I do paintings of similar daytime intervals between April and August, which is exactly what I think I’ll do, I will have a series of my backyard in summertime.
I had originally wanted to do a whole whack of them, 12 or 16, and display them as one series on a wall in 3 or 4 rows of 4 paintings. But now that I’m looking at them it feels like this is one series of five paintings from dawn to dusk. Am I being lazy or intuitive? Either way I’ll still be doing more of these paintings so I guess I will have to revisit this question again later.
I do find it interesting that I am back to doing progressive series painting similar to what I was doing while in university. Oooh, and I’m liking the way they look on the blog in grid format…I can see it being a series of nine…
So yes, I will be revisiting this.
These look really great together Dayna. I can see the progression thru time of day on each of them. They would look nice in similar frames as well if you choose to frame them. Nice job!
Thanks Marie, I really like seeing them altogether too. It changes them a bit :)