Here's the design for the formal portrait of Roxy. Using the carpet pattern as the floor ... the figure won't say what we want if she seems to float in space .... so I'll plant her on the carpet, and let the other compositional elements float around. I want to suggest an interior space, but not actually render one .... just like the allegorical Gauguin painting in the preceding post ... Vision After the Sermon suggests a landscape, but is really a representation of two planes - the material and the spiritual, and the diagonal tree trunk divides the two realms.
This is a decent size 36x24 inches, which is plenty of space to swirl some story elements around the canvass. It's beginning to come into focus in my imagination. Not exactly sure how to do it, but it is starting to take shape, so that's good. I've told everyone what I'm planning ... so that's also good ... one way or another I have to figure it out.
