Completed Painting: 'Untitled 9 (Constructed City'

 

'Untitled 9 (Constructed City)', Acrylics & Coloured Pencil on Panel,
300 mm x 300 mm, 2020

It's no accident this little painting bears a striking resemblance to 'Untitled 8'.  It essentially functions as a study  for that, larger painting - along with one other very similar small companion piece.  Indeed, I wasn't necessarily certain this would make it as a finished painting at all, when I started work on it. 

My numbering system becomes somewhat arbitrary here, for whilst all three paintings emerged pretty much concurrently, the two smaller studies were technically completed first.  Nevertheless, they do feel like subsidiaries, and certainly acted as a test-bed for the various techniques and overall approach they all share.  Once certain questions had been answered, and '8' was well under way, it seemed only natural to bring the two studies quickly to some kind of resolution too, as pieces in their own right.

During that process, and given their modest scale, it also occurred to me that the two 'studies' might make suitable Christmas presents for two close friends.  Thus, they were rapidly completed, wrapped, and delivered, as '8' was being completed.  So now it only remains for me to reveal '10'...