These are portraits of what I see, not of what are. I seek to portray what I see as it wants to be seen.


The struggle is emotional to me as I try to free that which wants to be into that which is.

Monday, July 11, 2011

Schoolgirls - Part 2


After my first three schoolgirls, I moved on to many different characters but found myself returning to sketch the girls in many different poses, some happy, some sad.



Three of those sketches turned into paintings #84, #92, and #93.



The sketch of #105 then reached over to #106 to fix her collar and I wondered...



...how was I going to handle their insubordination in not staying within their own panels? I decided to give them a chance to interact and solve the obvious framing problems of attaching them later.



I decided to do another sketch balancing the action reaching the opposite direction.



Therefore #101 and #102 saw her returning the favor, but with a little more gusto.



Finally, I took the interaction to my logical conclusion of boredom with the subject - one of the girls strangles the other to leave her alone and get back into her own panel!



I brought a little more emotion into #103 and #104 where they are shown fighting for their own individuality and the next part will show how they celebrated in their freedom as I returned to them stand alone.


Thank you for reading!

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