ON DOING SERIES

When doing a series of paintings one should firstly carefully plan the series. As I have discovered one should 1. Establish the concept out of your sourcematerial. You should have a feeling or passion for it- Write the concept down. 2. Establish the number for the series and start drawings. 3. Aquire enough surfaces to do the series simultaneously. 4. Now only start painting the series. Each painting must be halted so that the other in the same series should "catch up" first. The reason for not completing one fully is that your series might fastly differ in colour or emotional content and it might not stand as a series. 5. My subject matter, size, composition style, as well as manner of execution are more or less the same for all the paintings in the series. 6. The challenging parts are the drawings - redo it if they do dot not tie in with one another. 7. The last challenge is the unique qualifying element for each in the series - alike yet different! The concept must also be true to each painting in the series. That is the challenge!