Work In Progress: Update
1, Board of Directors Meeting (Pelicans)
Recently, one of my students
shared with me some very interesting photos she had taken while on a trip to
Cedar Key, Florida. Although I had just finished a painting of pelicans, one
photo in particular caught my interest and got me excited. It was a shot of a
bunch of pelicans gathered on a dock. My impression was of a gathering of
important members of an organization, standing around, conversing, just before
being called to order. They were discussing informally matters that would be
taken up formally in a few moments. It might be a board of directors meeting.
Well,
anyway, the gathering of pelicans on a dock seemed like a wonderful subject for
a painting.
The
original photo contained a longer expanse of pelicans, so I looked through it
to see what section I liked the most. Once I picked out the grouping I wanted
to include in the painting, I cropped it and saved it. The photos shown here is
the original photo and the cropped portion I’m going to use for the painting.
Next, I’ll
discuss the preliminary composition.
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