09 March 2010

Still with the Small Canvases

Well, this is a continuation on a continuation. There were two earlier post showing the progression of a series of small canvases. One was a trio of sunflowers the other has turned into this square of nine canvases. The text, which is mostly washed away, is the personification of Wisdom as described in Proverbs. I love this text.

The things I like about this set is the colors and depth of color. The thing that I find is missing is a structural element. There is plenty of organic movement in each canvas and across the whole, but there is no linking structural element. What do you think?

the final series


closeup before the text was washed away


the nine before all the text has been washed away in places

3 comments:

  1. Jo-I think these are great! really like them. The color is really super in them. D.

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  2. Jo-I think these are great! really like them. The color is really super in them. D.

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  3. I like them too! I love the combination of lettering styles. Beautiful colors and depth as you say. Individually, I think they each stand on their own. I'm interested to see how you tackle your desire to unify them with a structural element.

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