Those of you who are familiar with my work
know the human figure doesn’t play a prominent role in it, and that’s an
understatement. Still, for some resason I don’t really understand myself, I
lately painted an image with a human figure in it. A woman in white, strolling
along the beach, her feet in the water. I called it ‘A Day at the Beach’.
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| A Day At The Beach #1, oil on panel 32 x 32 cm |
Then I got the idea I could maybe make ‘A Day at the Beach’ triptych. The second painting was a little boy, playing in the water. Totally absorbed in his play, like children can.
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| A Day At The Beach #2, oil on panel 32 x 32 cm |
Last May me and my family spent a short
vacation on one of the Dutch islands and I took a picture of my grandson and
his dad walking towards the sea. There it was, my centerpiece!
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| A Day At The Beach #3, oil on panel 32 x 64 cm |
Now I got another problem. I’m really content with the centerpiece, but it doesn’t go well with the right and the left wing, I think. That’s what you get if you don’t make a plan… Maybe I should start all over again and make a proper plan for the right- as well as the left wing. What do you think?
The 3 can stand alone - awesome. Your intuition was better than a plan this time. The figures tell stories that the beach scapes alone can't. The figures fit in as a whole with the picture's rhythm. A quantum leap. Before the pictures without the figures were great, these are even better.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rob. I returned from a short vacation yesterday and had a fresh look at the tryptich. The doubts I had before simply vanished. Your comment is a strong support. Thanks!
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