First, you can see the small pastel painting that was the original idea for my more abstract diptych. Then, there are two pastel boards that are basically toned surfaces. Finally in the top middle and bottom left are two acrylic painting experiments.
My original idea was to create a diptych pair of acrylic and pastel paintings inspired by the Mint Museum Uptown art collection. The composition was to be an abstraction of one of my women in water with fabric images. (There is a small pastel painting of this original idea source.)
But, as I have been working on this process of underpainting and figuring out the composition, I am just not into the abstract composition. The full figure keeps coming back. Therefore in this picture below, you can see the original pastel inspiration (in top right), a more abstract acrylic painting that will be the under painting for the pastel boards (bottom left) and the two 20x16" pastel boards with their two separate images.
These will still be a pair, a set, a diptych so to speak... but are starting from two separate images instead of one.
Below is a detail of the more abstract acrylic painting that will be the under painting for the pastel paintings. (I am now working on the under painting of the final boards and will post more pics in the next week:-)
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