Painting a series of similar or related paintings doesn’t mean you’ve run out of ideas (or, worse, you’ve only ever had one idea!). Rather, painting a series is a way of pursuing an idea, of pushing it to see how far it’ll go, of trying out variations to see where you’ll end up.
I’ve found with this series of painting I’ve called “Heat” that one painting leads to another, and to another. The painting shown here I regard as the first of the series of paintings. But the painting I’d done immediately before led to this one, and without it I would never have had any of my Heat paintings.
The paintings are all acrylic on canvas and the main colours used are cadmium red, cadmium orange, cadmium yellow, golden ochre, titanium buff, and titanium white.
(Follow the development of this painting in this step-by-step painting demo.)
